It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

I have always believed that the key to a happy marriage was the ability to say with a straight face, 'Why, I don't know what you're worrying about. I thought you were very funny last night and I'm sure everybody else did, too.

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

many of the guests will eventually leave the table to watch football on television, which would be a rudeness at any other occasion but is a relief at Thanksgiving and probably the only way to get those people to budge.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?