Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.

Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?

People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed.

it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do