My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.

Stand up and finish what you started

What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.

I like to highlight people's superpowers.

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.