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.

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

Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown.

Technology is your friend... When it works.

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~

Try to feel God in any little thing you do or feel. In a laugh, a smile, a tear, a revelation-a kiss.

I don't believe in the concept of a soul mate. Because we are all unique, but we're also simply too similar.

I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.

When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.

The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands.

I like going on location for films.

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.