Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

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.

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

Be patient and one day you will be in Heaven, where there will be only peace and joy ... You will possess an enduring tranquility and rest.

Charity begins at home.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be.

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

Let's get up here before we get killed!

I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.

It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.