There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

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.

im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

Any man's measure is determined by what he will do when he is faced with his own deep need. Not how high he may reach but how low he may kneel.

To continue what one had been doing -- which was Dante's idea of hell -- is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties.

Friendship is honey but don't eat it all.

Ric Flair was so big I heard about him. I've read his autobiography and all that. He's huge.

Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.

...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.

Education is fundamental to any success. That's your baseboard.

The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.