Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

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 do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

I want to take ye to bed. In my bed. And I mean to spend the rest of the day thinking what to do wit ye once I got ye there. So wee Archie can just go and play at marbles with his bollucks, aye?

The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived.

Corporate governments are as corrupt as their law enforcement departments.

Apathy sets in when our passion for the future is miscarried.

A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

To truly lead one's people, one must also truly know them.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.