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.

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.

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

... 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.

A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

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.