It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

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.

These days, a sling of truth, still can make Goliath fall.

Yesterday ended last night.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down.

I think the past is something I have spent a lot of time thinking about, not only what is different about the past but what's the same, and what links us to the past.