Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.

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.

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

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

So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

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.

No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.