Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.

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.

HE didn't realize she was his everything until he gave her up for everything else.

But I knew what it said. That I could be imperfect, but only so much. Human, but only within limits. And honest, to her or to myself, never.

Love is like a season, it ebbs and it flows, sometimes we're like Summer, Fall and Winter, but it's Spring that I long to know.

Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

Step up or step aside.

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world.