Make people have a smile when they finish your e-mail.

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

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.

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.

Sit there and look pretty.

This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

You have to get rid of characters to make room for new ones, but you also have to recognize when things are done.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.