Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

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.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

Love meant different things to different people.

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.