Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

A man can please his wife with a box of candy, surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, and make her suspicious with a gold bracelet.

A man commented to his lunch companion: My wife had a funny dream last night. She dreamed she'd married a millionaire. You're lucky, sighed the companion. My wife dreams that in the daytime.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.

If you lend someone 20 dollars and never see that person again, it's probably worth it.

What happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.

I've got a weird balance problem as a human being, like I'm dizzy, and it's something to do with that.

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.

The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.