For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important.

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.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

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

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.

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

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

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

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.

We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.

Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

Sometimes I'm angry, sometimes I'm not angry.

Women take clothing much more seriously than men. I've never seen a man walk into a party and say "Oh, my God, I'm so embarrassed; get me out of here. There's another man wearing a black tuxedo.

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -Mat