Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

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.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people, Romeo and Juliet, took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.

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.

The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.

When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'