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.

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.

Not all things are eligible to make you unhappy

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.

Some of Paul Scholes' tackles come in so late they arrive yesterday.

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.