Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ambrose Bierce

Friends are thieves of time.

Francis Bacon

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

J. K. Rowling

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Napoleon Hill

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.

Francis Gray

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

John le Carre

Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

Dorothy Parker, Inventory

The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally.

Samuel H. Hammond

I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.

Rodney Dangerfield

Mort isn't fashionable UK movie material -- there're no parts in it for Hugh or Emma, it's not set in Sheffield, and no one shoves drugs up their bum...

Terry Pratchett

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare