This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.

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.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life... is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love... does not conquer all.

The way you walk, talk, stand, and carry yourself sends messages to others that can attract or repel, encourage or discourage, and impress or depress.

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

It's very gratifying that someone likes what you're selling.

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.