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.

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.

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

We are endowed with different kinds of gifts for different kinds of services.

I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!

Less feelings means less goodbyes.

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like... why?

Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards. —Alton Richard

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.