I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

Bradley Whitford

Penn State is a leader in food science.

Don Sherwood

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

Eric Hoffer

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

Carl Sagan

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

James Allen

No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?

John Barton

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

Mark Twain

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

Judy Blume

What is the best type of Jihad ? He answered: Speaking truth before a tyrannical ruler.

Muhammad

You should never ask actors about politics.

Liev Schreiber

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

Erin Morgenstern