Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

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!

We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars.

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.

The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers

I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

I made a few movies in Holland for a lot of TV series. I came to Los Angeles and for the last 10 years, I made a lot of feature films - all kinds of low budget action movies for the studios.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'