Women's love is for their men, not for their children.

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.

To say someone is a vision is to pay them a great compliment. If you say that they look a sight it is a grave insult.

I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.

and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

In New York there's a lot of interstitial spaces; spaces in between spaces, where you're changing, and New York gives you the anonymity to be who you want to be.

If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can’t get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.