When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

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.

Everything is transient. You must transcend and transform for higher self realization.

As an American, I'd like to apologize-for everything.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

You can fulfill your whole life in one hour of inner seeing.

Sin doesn't make you bad, it makes you dead

I try to project not only a song but a personality.

I cannot overemphasize this, the attitude, the defeatist attitude that everybody on the Republican side had.

There are people who live, breathe and dress tennis.

Through it all nobody gets me like you do.

In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.