Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

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.

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

My daddy. He's so funny! My whole family jokes around a lot.

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.

You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a piece of reality off.

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.

Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

People reach a point of readiness for change when they reach their own personal bottom.