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

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.

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.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

Today is the day to cast your worries on God and breathe in new life. Your past does not define who you are today.

Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

'So what happens next?' 'Everybody dies, and the people who don't get married.' 'Like any other story, then.'

When we humans learn how to analyze the messages of the nighttime we open ourselves up to manifest our greatest selves.

Yep, Atlanta was burning. Again.

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.

Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.

The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.

What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.