Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

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

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

... letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like deposits in a secret bank that can be withdrawn when they are needed. And as we look back in love, we appreciate anew the thought and time that was taken to express those feelings.

Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.