It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

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.

every end should be followed by great new beginning

I felt the nauseous shiver in my stomach—everything from rage to empathy to morning sickness—that I had grown used to and now thought of as being love.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.