Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

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!

Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

When your eyes go, and your legs go, and your fans go; then it's time for you to go too.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

How is it that the sky feeds the stars?

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.