Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.

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.

...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...This was untrue, of course.

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.

It's a small world, but not if you have to clean it

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.

The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and so that had a major influence on me.

Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

I love travel. There's nothing more beneficial than getting to travel, to see different cultures, to see different environments and expose your children to that.