Conversation makes one what he is.

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!

Character is the real you-“the you in you that makes you the you, you are”. “the hidden man of the heart” (1Peter 3:4).

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints good Lord deliver us.

As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.