Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.

I support legal immigration.

I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.

One of the great consolations . . . is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so.

I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.

When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.