In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.

A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.

The perfect classroom is Paris.

Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.

There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.

if the right man does not come along, there are many fates far worse. One is to have the wrong man come along.

Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.

the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?

At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

If you're a ghost, " he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or you soon will be one

No one told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend." "We're Millennium Lint now," Simon protested

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity; they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them.

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation.

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

Donald Trump has defied practically every playbook or blue book technique in dispatching an opponent.