I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Thomas Aquinas

Love me in actions, not in words.

Dee Dee M. Scott

I make movies I want to see.

Neil LaBute

The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

Sally Ride

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

Billie Holiday

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Walter Lippmann

Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Awww! Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'

Kristen Wiig

I remember the time you told me, you said Love is touching souls, Surely you've touched mine, cause Part of you pours out of me In these lines from time to time.

Joni Mitchell

The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.

Steve Maraboli

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals continued our course in the morning and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

Christopher Columbus

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Ernest Hemingway