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

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

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.

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

In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.

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

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