He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.

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!

No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain.Me.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

I don't know why it is, but I just love soul music and all that old country stuff. I guess somehow my heart mixed them both together as I made my albums.

I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

I'm interested in power.

Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.

What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.