No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

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.

The moon stared at me through sprinkled nighttime stardust and I alone smile.

It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.

Nothing is wrong about giving a rose to someone you like or love.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I had no way to have a sense of humor about The Exorcist. I didn't know how. And this enabled me.

Feed the birds in winter; in return, they will feed your soul with the look of gratitude!

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.