Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

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.

Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road.

The truth had been said but evil had been done.

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

A world's full of broken hearts. That's all this is. I wondered if there was anyone above the age of say, 18, in the world who hadn't had their hearts broken at some point.

Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive

Cultivate night-blooming jasmine near your bedroom window, and dream of men you've always longed for.

Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.