People love to talk but hate to listen.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.