He that serves, must serve.

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!

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

On practical level I can't pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don't wander around. It's almost impossible for me to pick up a camera... it's really hard.

When we look at how, constitutionally, only Congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. Not NATO or the UN, but Congress has to authorize these endless wars, and it isn't.

We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.