Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

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 know you are mine, not in my life but in my memories.

Dreams without deadlines are dead in the water. Deadlines are really lifelines to achieving our goals.

Wealth maketh many friends.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

Nobody can count Shane Mosley out. He is a good, good fighter, especially when he fights an aggressive opponent like Manny Pacquiao.

If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.

Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?

Deep love creates deep fear. It looks like death because the I disappears, the you disappears - and it is a sort of death. And when you die, only then do you enter into the divine.

On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion?

Leave an old flame in the past. It'll just get worse if you rekindle it.