Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

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 boundaries that we face in life are mostly those we self-construct.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

It's difficult to make any kind of action movie that might be unique or worth watching.

Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

You can’t second-guess baseballyou can’t second-guess yourself.

In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.

No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.