When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

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.

Miracles are happening every moment. You just have to be ready to see them.

That’s what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.

A key that opens many locks is worth buying. A lock that can be opened with many keys isn't.

That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

You know what’s more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

This country is no more saved than; well ... it's as lost as they say in Alabama, "... as lost as a ball in tall grass."

For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting.