If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

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.

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Young people are the key to this election.

I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin.

It almost isn't sporting, is it?

If you wish to be loved, love.

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.

Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.