The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

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.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

The world is anxiously waiting to see what Jesus Christ can do in, by, for, and through one man wholly given to him - God-led. You can be that man.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play

Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.