Be what thou wouldst seeme to be.

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!

You can't fall in love with someone in a day.""Romeo and Juliet did, " Melanie says, tugging me toward the exit."Yeah, and then they killed themselves a few hours later. Thanks for the pep talk, Mel.

If you have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process.

My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.

There are a lot of really good shows that don't win anything.

We get done with the game, and it's an absolute downpour 30 minutes later. That's when I thought God was telling me that's enough-time for you to go do something else

My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

Never, never, never, hire people with an attitude. You will regret it.

Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.