Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

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.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you.

in 2011, Rachel and I founded a company called Caribou Biosciences to commercialize the Cas proteins.

Learning is my sole delight.

There must be some atom of our life hidden here, lingering in this quiet somewhere.

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.

Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

Creative life is always based on the values of the self, not on the values of the system.

Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

I really think that 'Sports Illustrated' is a big step in the "healthy is the new skinny" movement.