Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys..

The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members..

Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - wh….

they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner..

If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness….

People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People adore the one who encourage….

You can never be free from limitation until you are willing to recognize that you and you alone are responsible for what you are. After you have pass….

If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and en….

Speaking of opinions, the charming woman does not air hers very freely. The crude woman is eager to let you know what she thinks of every matter, per….

The very thing that seems to impede your progress can often be turned to account for you..

The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I hav….

Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood ….

No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have ….

Time is a friend - perhaps the best one we shall ever have. ... Time is a now - and there is only now. Memories look backward. Hope looks ahead. But ….

any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn't the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime, be known and u….

Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do..

So few people can think and talk at the same time..

All life is a delusion of the senses..

a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at least not be offended by it..

Flirting is a cheap, dangerous shortcut to get something you can't hold after you get it..

Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self..