The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.

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 crimes of children reproduce themselves, closing their victims in cages built of nightmares.

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

When I leave her, I will have few regrets. But those that I have, are magnificent.

I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book

Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.