He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.

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 most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

Life will never be perfect, so we must learn how to make the imperfections work for us.

This is THE most romantic thing that has ever happened to me, and it involves both drugs and a toilet.

In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. P. 25

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?

I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.