Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart 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.

There are no smooth paths to success. You have to straighten many rugged roads and scale numerous walls for the ultimate triumph.

The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.

Sometimes life is so crazy, you have to go through something to be able to find out what you're supposed to talk about next, and I think that's what happened to me.

All good things come to an end. All bad things go on forever.

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

I haven't been down to Navy Pier in such a long time. I know that's probably the touristy thing to do, but it just reminds me so much of 2000 when I was here shooting ["Hardball"].

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'