Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

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.

Blame is the coward’s retreat.They think it frees them, but it confines them… Blame is also the coward’s warden.

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot on TV.

I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.

I spend so much time alone that whenever I see my shadow I feel crowded.

What about you? You didn't even think twice about following those two. They say, 'Let's go onto the ice' and right away you say, 'Where do I put my paws?' If you ask me, you're the brave one.

Don't say I'm not talented. If you haven't noticed, I wasn't made. I was found.

I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.

Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.

If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.