Youth holds no society with grief.

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.

Her hand warmed from his touch and she hoped the cloud-covered moon hid her blush.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

If you have zero access to the Internet, that is an offline device.

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

I think if you're not willing to wear your own clothes, you're doing something wrong. If you're not wearing your own line, you're taking all the fun out of it.

I was never NOT confident about doing scenes without my shirt - and now I'll find any excuse to take my shirt off!

It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.