Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.

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.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...

I want John Legend to sing at my wedding.

Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.

The distribution of wealth is not determined by nature. It is determined by policy.

Every President wants to do right.

Carole King is one of my dearest friends. Were like family.

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.