Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.

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.

Walking on water requires feet of faith.

I pressed my dark issues to the back of my mind and smiled a slight untruthful happiness . . .

There is never enough time for fun.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl.

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.

John McEnroe's so good. Against him, all you can do is shake hands and take a shower.

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.