A gift much expected is paid, not given.

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!

Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

Names are not always what they seem.

The same spirit runs through everything I do.

I have been stupid and regret making a silly mistake experimenting with drugs.