Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

What we do stems directly from what we believe.

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.

Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.