So if you have a grandma Thank the Good Lord up above And give Grandmama hugs and kisses For grandmothers are to love.

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 may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.