Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

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.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

Find a vocation and passionately commit your life to it.

If you don't know how to take care of your own needs, when you try to give to others, you are giving from a bankrupt account.

When God’s putting His finger on the part of your life that’s not working, He’s pointing to your next miracle.

You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.

I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.