All things require skill but an appetite.

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!

This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.

Positive thinkers always affirm blessings on themselves and see themselves as legitimate heirs.

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done