Great strokes make not sweete musick.

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!

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.

Death is not going to hold down Huell Howser.

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.