A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.

Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.