Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

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 I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth.

If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

I see myself as the same person as I was, as I am now.