Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

It takes a lot of practices to get it right. The key is to keep practicing.

Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.

We don't have eternal life because we're good, we have it because God is good.

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.