The greatest pleasure of life is love.

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 watch the sky, we watch it alive and we watch it die, looking for signs. We live like wind, with hope in wings that we will get there, never sooner or never later, but at a right time.

Success by one’s efforts is the achievement gained through ability, not through deception.

The Bible is God speaking to mankind. The more you read the Bible, the more you will hear God speaking to you.

Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds.

The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite.

I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

You only live once, and I just don’t want to waste a minute of my life.