Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

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.

What is a Miracle? It is something that was once thought Impossible but became Possible with FAITH.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased.

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

I don't think young people need to see the face of the deceased.

Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.

I have my songs ready in my head, gather the guys, play it and then let them go with it. [The music] finds its way, we do what the music says to do......the song is the producer.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

I love what I'm doing for a living.