For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

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.

Even if you feel wronged, respond right.

Don’t mistake:Kindness with weakness

Beat me, hurt me, fight me and I’ll bounce back, but be nice to me? I folded quicker than a banker in a high-stakes poker game.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.

Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing.

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.