The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

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.

To live without your want is the grace of contentment.

The birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.

Curiosity lies in a hidden corner of the scientific mind.

No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.

I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.

Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.

Avarice is always poor.

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.