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

So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.

If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

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.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

... in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family.