Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

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.

Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.

Maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. The universe takes care of its birds.

I don't anxiously take in what people say about other people and judge them solely on that basis. I measure a person by how they treat me and what I see in their character.

Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.

If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's only nirvana for the enlightened.

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress.

The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.