The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

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.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

incurable lover of the grotesque

What you create for you, no one can take from you.

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

Sadness puts my heart in a prison.

Happy Birthday, Mr Presidenttttt

On the square...I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith, Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'