Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

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.

Great stories changed our heart and penetrated our soul.

The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations.

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's probably my biggest vice.

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be.