Beauty draws more than oxen.

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!

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

I love to read.

Christianity is not an insurance policy against life’s ills and troubles.

Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is.

Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.

sometimes is good to be in patience, it can be mean understand, sometimes patience can describe as sacrifice, but everytime it hurting ourself

Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed--Ask for more strenght!

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.