A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

Forget about being impressive and commit to being real. Because being real is impressive!

What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.

Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.

It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.