The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.

Life is hard. After all it kills you.

People are roasting each other at parties at work events around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops and it's a sign of affection truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship and then the friendship of two Venetians Roberta and Franco who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

Conjugal love or the friendship of spouses can persist even after sexual desires have weakened withered and disappeared.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble and then not worth much after you get it.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability anarchy and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

After the tragedy New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together we can accomplish anything.

Most men after a little freedom have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

When people talk of the freedom of writing speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door and what we do with our lives after we do is up to us.

Coercion after all merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess do penance and then after some kind of decent interval ask for forgiveness.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

After my pregnancy I discovered I have an allergy to yeast. Problem is all the food I love has yeast in it. So I have to relearn how to cook.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field which at that point was being an actress.

If we eat any food or drink any beverage we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated if capital and population increased more food would be required and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.