The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

Thomas Sowell

One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.

Charles Horton Cooley

Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?

Nicholas Sparks

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

Euripides

I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it

Bible

I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

Reese Witherspoon

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Winston Churchill

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Tom Lehrer

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Salman Rushdie

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well....

Sir John Mortimer, Murderers & O

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

Maggie Smith

To find beauty in ugliness is the province of the poet

Thomas Hardy