Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

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.

...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today.

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.