Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults!

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

To attract men, I wear a perfume called "New Car Interior."

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.