Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

1. You must let the pain visit.2. You must allow it teach you3. You must not allow it overstay.(Three routes to healing)

She remembered Fiona saying something once, there was nothing more attractive than a competent man. At the time she'd been a young girl, without true understanding, but now she agreed.

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it's a Weasel with a Cheese finish.

Mexicans are quasi-legal.

I like the noise of democracy.

Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

The relationship I have with my kids is beautiful.