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.

... 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.

... letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like deposits in a secret bank that can be withdrawn when they are needed. And as we look back in love, we appreciate anew the thought and time that was taken to express those feelings.

Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

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

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

Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.