There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

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.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.

Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom.

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.