Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

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.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

People can be tough as hell. They can go through some really heavy stuff... with a genuine smile...

Wait for me.” The words come out choked and pained. “I need you to wait for me.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it through not dying.

I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else.

People thought I was dead. But I wasn't. I was just directing "The A-Team."

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.