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.

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.

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.

As we grow and progress in life, a lot of things and people need to be left behind. Not for malice but as a necessity!

Help each and every person who is in need, because you don't know at which moment you are in need!

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

It is easier to kill what we do not know.

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

People grew up on the animated movie. Bill Condon is Bill Condon. And nobody does those movies better than Disney does.

Egil Olsen should have gone six games ago. He was totally useless. I'd like to give him a right-hander!