He that makes a good war makes a good peace.

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!

After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories.

Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal? I am so over it.

There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.