Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

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.

If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must not impose controls on others.

Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them.

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture.

Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.