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

. . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed; there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera.

We have the reverse of the Puritan work ethic in America now. No one ever becomes a star by plugging along year after year. What is needed is flair, talent, 'an eye,' contacts, charisma, and, most of all, naturalness.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.