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

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

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.

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.

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

... 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.

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.