All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.