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

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.

The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.

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.

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.

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

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