How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

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.

Oh sweetheart, do you really think if youseal it up, that the pain's gonna go away?

Life on the street is simple. You eat. You don’t eat. You sleep. You don’t sleep. You’re alive. You’re dead. It’s that simple!" - excerpt from: freefalling

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well.

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake.

Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.