Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

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.

Your hearing status does not make you a better person. Your humanity does.

Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

In our solitariness... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?

I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now

There are just some things that you can't deny.