The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

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 wake up everyday with an intention of delivering my masterpiece... nothing less

Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity.

I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as bullets at Wal-Mart.

How many roads must a developer walk down, before they accept the amenities package?

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

When I wear a really nice and classy dress out, the papers never print it.

We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.

When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.

The minister expressed appreciation for the offer, and our embassy in Uzbekistan will be following up in more detail with them