Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

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.

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.

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.

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

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