It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.