Most rich people are the poorest people I know.

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.

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

If you think you understand, it isn't God.

Faith is the flip side of fear.