“The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.”

“Alone with my wine and my misery, I was convinced that life was composed of a string of if onlys leading from one self-inflicted bungle to the next until at some point, ones final iteration of the ...”

“I dont care how smart you are. Youll never understand how little you really know until youve had a woman.”

“It is we who move through time, not the reverse. When we walk beyond any one of lifes instants, it becomes nothing more than a receding milestone. We can look back, but we cannot retrace our steps....”

“There is no such thing as unrequited love; the phrase ought to be stricken from the lexicon. Love is a thing shared, an intertwining of essential separateness into something not quite alone. There ...”

“I don’t care how smart you are. You’ll never understand how little you really know until you’ve had a woman.”

“I was raised right I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.”

“I have often found this to be true since, that matters which seem terribly important in the early days of such a journey (what will people back home say?) fade into triviality with the passage of t...”

“The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities...”

“Theres no respect for older people at all today, and thats saddening. Look at the way crime against older people has risen! You know, theres no calling people Mr or Mrs now, they just call you, and...”

“There’s no respect for older people at all today, and that’s saddening. Look at the way crime against older people has risen! You know, there’s no calling people ‘Mr’ or ‘Mrs’ now, they just call y...”

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”

“While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and imp...”

“Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.”