Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Life is love, heartache and strain, Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane.

We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.

When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed.

Holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos - what's to complain about?

I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

We pretty much had crazy weather, historically speaking, in every location we filmed [The Fourth Phase]. Nothing has been normal in the past three years.

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.