Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."

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.

Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing.

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

I think there's this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you'd only wear at night.

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper.

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

I listen to music constantly while writing.