Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

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.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen

Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.

When hands are joined, no one can point fingers.

Since the Court took God our of our schools, we've gotten exactly what we should expect: godless schools.

A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.