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.

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

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

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.

Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.