What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

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.

The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.

The biggest barrier in communication is that tendency of listening to reply and not to understand.

Today's business climate is not for me.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

God has a purpose in every life, and when the soul is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal.

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.

Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.