Dead men have no victory.

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.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.

Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.

We must now become not just takers from the ocean, but caretakers of it.

I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.