When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

The only way the weight of the world can break you down, is if you carry it the wrong way.

Forget about 'Going Viral' and 'Go Give Value'.

In Rome the statues, in Paris the paintings, and in Prague the buildings suggest that pleasure can be an education.

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.