An excellent wine, someone's best attempt at cooking, and the candles and flowers on the table can turn the simplest dinner into an unforgettably romantic event.

A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.

In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.

The perfect classroom is Paris.

Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.

There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.

if the right man does not come along, there are many fates far worse. One is to have the wrong man come along.

Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.

the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?

At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

...-the two look at each other - one full of guilt - other full of pain - both full of unhappiness.

Commitment is the only currency that keeps a family together.

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

When you get into the final week of the Tour de France, it becomes a different kind of race. As the distance and the fatigue really tell, that is when it becomes a proper test of everyone's fitness.

The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, All right, I'll take it, bring it on.

'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.

Dreams don't deal in time. Time doesn't count.

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do."