No one is happy all his life long.

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.

Grace comes from God.

Keep your heart and mind open to allow things to come in.

I will not allow my mistakes of the past compromise my hope for the future.

Are you a traveling man he asked?

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

God is always at war with sin

Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.