As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

I regret it is not possible to marry by post.

I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

Hillary Clinton is more in the center of things than I am, but she also knows how to work with the opposition, which is a necessary talent in politics right now.

Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4%

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.