God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.

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!

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

when I see you, I see mystery - a pale moon's beauty behind a veil of cloud

Darkness does not leave up as easily as we would hope.

I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

It is my time. The time of maximum ride.

I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.

Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!