The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

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.

I feel part of the environment, not separate from it, as though I’m at home rather than visiting—as though I’m tapped into some eternal omnipresence beyond the transient physical forms.

Unless you enter the tiger's den you cannot take the cubs.

To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.

I love her. My piano. play the sh*t outta her.

I'm starved." -Juli "How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn." -Elspeth "Popcorn isn't food, it's popcorn." -Vicki

. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.

Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.