A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

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!

The greatest self is self confident.

A crushing defeat is the most humbling inoculation for arrogance.

Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

I think any time you're at the end of a trip you're usually pretty ready to come home and start working regularly again.

I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.

The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.