I don't have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it's stupid - which is the one perspective that's almost completely lacking in Washington.

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.

Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

The amazing thing is nobody has to believe in anything all they have to do is be wiling to try.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

The essence of positioning is sacrifice. You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.

The pedal is the soul of the piano.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.

Beauty is not diminished by being shared.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.