A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important.

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

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.

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

It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.