Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

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.

Magic will find those with pure heats, even when all seems lost. And love is the greatest magic of all. I know this to be true.

I've been in some beautiful places, but the prettiest sight is flying back to New Orleans. Being able to look down and say, 'I know where I am now.'

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

I read the newspaper.

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.