If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

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

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.

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

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.

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

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.