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

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.

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

Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

... 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.

No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.