It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

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.

Guard your throats and hide your eyes. He’s not dead, you fools. Legends never die.

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

So most of the time when we are confronted by more, rather than a few, choices we're often novices and so we don't really know how to differentiate these various options.

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.