Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

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.

Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.

It isn't the amount you spend today, it's what you want to invest in for the future!

Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.

I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.

A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.

Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days.

I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.

Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem.

Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.