Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

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.

Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.

Today in May 1938, the world around us suffers from the anxiety which the unemployment of millions brings with it. In Germany we begin to be anxious because we have not enough workmen.

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing I had to an interactive, theatrical experience.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.