Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

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.

We all have the right to choose our own gods, and worship them. No matter even if it is a stone, an animal or a piece of cake.

I used to be free spirited, now I'm just free of sleep. I got a burning passion in my throat. I got a burning passion inside me.

The loveliest flowers sometimes grow in the ugliest places.

We've got a good inspection system in Arizona managing products that come from other parts of the county that could carry insects that could become problematic.

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

Food is one of the great organizing tools.

I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.