Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.

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!

There is a crack in everything God has made.

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.

[Barack Obama] has been a very negative force. I think you see this when you see the tremendous division in the country, when you see Baltimore, when you see Ferguson and St. Louis.

I like rules. Without them, we don't know what to break.

Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.