Tobacco is the tomb of love.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

A person who is too proud in love will suffer from the devastating bitterness in the end.

Dancing daily is a good physical activity.

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.

Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

I think my instinct creatively is to make things that are very funny and happy and silly. And in this moment where the world is very scary, I feel like my role is to make people laugh really hard.

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

My favorite part of theatre is that I get paid for it!

Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.