The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

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.

God gives grace.

While you fear missing a meal you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

Donnie and Marie can both take a bite.

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?

The new Kenyans. There are always new Kenyans.

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.