Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in

You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression.

The writer is the person who stays in the room.