In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.

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.

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

Rebecca Eaton has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more than that, she is one of the most fun people I know.

Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.

Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don't judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge!

I don't take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.