Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.

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.

The perfect classroom is Paris.

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.

if the right man does not come along, there are many fates far worse. One is to have the wrong man come along.

Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.

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?

At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

Wealth in money, mineral resources are not the real wealth. The true wealth of nation is the character of her people.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

Her clothes still smoked from the wizard’s assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers.

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

You get better at working by working. And if you don't work, you're not getting better.

I just love the energy of going into different areas of New York.

Indian batsmen, including Virat Kohli will find it difficult to score runs against Pakistan.