Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

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!

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.

Customers don't care how much time something takes to build. They care only if it serves their needs.

Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.

Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.

I want to be the best. So whatever comes with that, I have to accept it.

I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.