You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

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.

Beware the wounded lioness, for she is a natural hunter.

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.

I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.