A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.

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!

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.

When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

If God hadn't meant us to hunt men, he wouldn't have given us Wonder Bras.

The Law of Attraction requires that we focus our attention on what we do want, rather than what we don't want, Focus on loving you.

My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.