Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

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.

Don't criticize me because of what I write, because for all you know, I could be right!

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.

Those who think of their house as only a ‘machine to live in’ should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.

I hate games I can't win.

Julian, sometimes girls are like junk food. They look good, and they sure taste good… but you know they're not healthy for you and cause cavities so it's better to just leave 'em alone. Got me?