Noble fathers have noble children.

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.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.

The doctor looked at my cardiogram and made that "hmmmm" noise that doctors are taught in medical school so they won't come right out and say "UH-oh!"

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."