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

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

Survival must come before civilization.

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.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.