Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

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.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us but that we will hear Him.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

It is not about mind-watching; but rather recognizing That which watches the mind.

How happy you are depends to a very large degree on your relationships with other people.