We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

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.

If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.

Only Americans can hurt America.

People like to be able to identify a brand, and I don't really have one.

This is my dream and I'm living it. I've never wanted to do anything else except write songs and perform them

It's always important to be yourself.

Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not?

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.

Look at your heart-flower and smile. You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.

Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.