Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.

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.

Embrace nothing:If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.If you meet your father, kill your father.Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor let us to fly to the unknown darkness!

It was surely one thing to respect the Dark Arts as a dangerous enemy, another to speak of them with a loving caress in his voice?

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

He will find out the hard way on his birthday that he has got a present he never wanted

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

We have to take the biblical truth and start applying it in the statehouse, the schoolhouse, and the marketplace.

Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.