We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.

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.

When you pray as much as you work

Life happens with or without our permission.

Change is coming, she whispered to the bugs bouncing off her window. You can’t escape it.

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.

I try to only work with people whose craft I believe in.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

I would love to sing opera.

If there's a good side of Islam, at the end of the day it serves evil.