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.

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.

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.

Live each day as if it could be the last day that you spend with your husband or wife.

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.

Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.

Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.

When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.

Live and die on this day... Live and die on this day.

We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem.

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

Climb the ladder to success escalator style