There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

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.

The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you.

If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.

You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good.

This is the beauty of social media: it helps you find people and then you can contact them fast and inexpensively.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

No one will go to hell simply because all they needed was a little more time and they died prematurely.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.

I don't believe [Africa] is ready to shift - and she needs to shift. So she needs to get the technology and she can only get that technology from the developed world.