A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.