Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

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 am a defender of the Tea Party.

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.

The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.

Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.

It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a clown or a boxer. And there is no lasting value in either one of those.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in doing so.