Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

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.

Time will take everything away from life, so why are we not giving something away with time?

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.

Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

Most actors love to get to the point where they're not auditioning.

Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.