When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.

Well being, serenity and service to others are the ultimate measures of true wealth, success and power

Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.