Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide

Bernard Kelvin Clive

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Uma Thurman

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

Laura Linney

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Dag Hammarskjold

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

Charles Foster Bass

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

Mark Twain

Tempt not a desperate man.

William Shakespeare

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Alice Walker

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

Jhene Aiko

It was well said by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone one's awareness of the exceedingly slow passage of time. I once had the experience of being 'waterboarded' and can now dimly appreciate how much every second counts in the experience of the torture victim, forced to go on enduring what is unendurable.

Christopher Hitchens

A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked away filled with joy as if he possessed the world's riches in his hands. In a way, he did. He left me smiling and knowing that he was wealthier than many others... (01-21-10)

Besa Kosova

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe