I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

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.

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

Kim: "What, a coffee? Hollie, I have some bad news. I hate you, okay?" Hollie: "You hate everyone, Kim." Kim: "You're one of everyone.

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.