A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Paul Ryan

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.

Katarina Witt

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

E. T. Bell

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Milton Berle

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.

Andrew Solomon

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Calvin Coolidge

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Agatha Christie

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

Anatole France

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Pete Townshend

Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Thomas Carlyle

I leave before being left. I decide.

Brigitte Bardot

Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go.

Terry Pratchett