Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

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.

It doesn’t cost much to be Happy if the currency of your heart is the blowing of the breeze and the swaying of the trees.

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

Iron sharpens iron scholar the scholar.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

To be a footballer means being a privileged interpreter of the feelings and dreams of thousands of people.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.