A great ship asks deep water.

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!

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.

Thought is born of failure.

The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

I don't have too much time to jam with the rest of Hollywood.

I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?