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

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.

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.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Life is too short to drink the house wine.

I don't want to make statements about where I'm gonna be in 30 years. But as of right now, I definitely have a different relationship with the way I look. It's not all-consuming.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before.

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.