An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.
The perfect classroom is Paris.
Finally. . . You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess with the sincerest proof of your great love and friendship for them - you endured their cocktail party.
In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.
Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.
There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.
the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.
It’s okay to struggle to find our place in this world and the person who will take us for who and what we are. Sometimes we dress ourselves in layers that only get peeled away in the end, to leave us as we should be.
A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem