We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.

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.

I've never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.

Time is truly apathetic to the many to whom a little empathy would mean so much.~"Disarming (Reign of Blood #2)

Faith and optimism are cousins.

How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

Winners make commitments, losers make excuses.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

I ask all people of goodwill to help build a culture of encounter, solidarity and peace