Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

She closed her hands around his and shut her eyes, imagining their bed cut free of this strange prison, floating through space or on the surface of the ocean, just the two of them alone.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group

If you just read Leviticus on the surface, you may think it's just a bunch of grumpy irrelevant rules; but, it's actually the way God gave his people access to himself.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

I am convinced that we all have the decision to act on a daily basis.

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.