Being interested is more important than being interesting.

What we steadily, consciously, habitually think we are, that we tend to become.

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.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

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

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.