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.
Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.
The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me.