The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

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 want to be great, see greatness in others and appreciate it with your whole heart.

That's how you avoid becoming a moth, " he says. "Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.

Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

Don't save your enormous creativity for "something better." Give it to this.

All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.

I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.