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

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.

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.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Don’t judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

I don't like to play the victim.

Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.

I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive of travel and doing whatever I thought I needed to do.

I salute all workingwomen everywhere! You inspire me to keep going!

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.