Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

We learn by teaching.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

Japan is the first nation in the world to accord 'comic books'--originally a 'humorous' form of entertainment mainly for young people--nearly the same social status as novels and films.

We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

A crooked log makes a strait fire.

A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my interest, so I think as a child I was often very baffled by knowledge claims.

I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.