The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.

Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to see.Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth.

Often it takes more guts than skill to open doors. Once the doors get opened, then it's up to you.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

I'm a big shoe guy, too. I have far too many pairs. Whenever there's a new style out, I'll text my stylist: 'Can we get a pair of those?'

If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.