A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up, and light-heartedly, courageously, good-temperedly, get ready for the next encounter.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity.

Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.

The words hurt my throat a little – probably because I was swallowing my pride, and it didn’t taste so great.

Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

My hope and treasure lies above

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

When I think my hair needs a bit of help, I just glue another bit onto my head.

I don’t predict a nonexisting future.

An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.

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

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.