Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

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.

Gansey knew enough people with secrets not to be dazzled into easily using them as currency.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.

I want it all and I want it now.

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.

When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.

Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.