Better a serpent than a stepmother!

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.

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.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings.

Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

I will never lie to you.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

Together we can do great things.

Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.

You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.