Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

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

Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

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

I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.