Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.

Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.

Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.

The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know!

If you want to be treated like a queen then start acting like one. No arrogance or games. Be humble, graceful, kind & loving.

Makeup artists are always giving me their stuff. My favorite thing is free stuff. I'll take anything.

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.

Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.