You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.

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 imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

Life’s unpredictable patterns had a strange way of forming a connected web.

There is no getting away from the past or from one’s destiny.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

There ought t'be some way t'eat celery so it wouldn't sound like you wuz steppin' on a basket.

The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!