Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

If you can't quite make it as a high flier then join a trampoline club.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I've got friends in bands who seem like they're always on tour, even still. It may be in some people's blood. I'm sure some bands do it just to earn a living or for the experience.

I walked away from Kyoto because it would damage America's economy, you bet. It would have destroyed our economy. It was a lousy deal for the American economy. I felt there was a better way.

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

People think that they see, but they don't.

Actually to be a champion your goal is to be a little bit better each day, making sure that every day is an opportunity to be at your best.

... life is short and the world is wide

You and I love understanding American Revolution, but let's also understand the digital revolution, because that makes us more comfortable with our technology.