All things in their beeing are good for something.

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 isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

I am impressed with America's capacity for change, and their ability to bring someone as inspirational as Barack Obama into the White House.

I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.