All our pompe the earth covers.

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!

Something or someone is always waving goodbye.

Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.

Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

Boys always get the best eyelashes; it's like some kind of cosmic law. And half-breed kids get some kind of extra help there from genetics, too.

I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.