Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

Being gifted means facing the next level of depth without ever being repulsed by the curse that comes with the magic of being different.

Ignorance is worse than authorization.

They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

Three turns should do it.

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

Make big plans, but change your plans as time changes.

I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you talk about My Istanbul is a sunny place.

God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.