Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

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.

Don't let someone get comfortable with disrespecting you.

He's got more red flags than Soviet Russia.

While some people are good at painting, playing an instrument or singing, I have been told more than once I am good at storytelling. I hope that you enjoy my stories as I recall them.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."

This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.