She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

Mindy Kaling

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.

Charles Dickens

It is a pure soul who can hold true the in­no­cence and time­less­ness of pas­sion in an­oth­er soul. Each un­veil­ing the great­est pieces of the oth­er, locked to­geth­er at the heart for eter­ni­ty

Christine Zolendz

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

Ahad Ha'am

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

Howard Nemerov

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

Thomas Carlyle

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Lord Chesterfield

My trade and art is to live.

Michel de Montaigne

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected

Mahatma Gandhi

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Russell Baker, The Good Times, 1

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

Diane Keaton