In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

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.

Sublime natures are seldom clean!

Yes, but nomes aren’t hard to make, ” said Dorcas. “You just need other nomes.” “You’re weird.

Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

I'm not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.

There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.

Boswell is the first of biographers.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.