He that will be surety, shall pay.

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!

It is wise to know God.

I carry the Sun in a Golden Cup, the Moon in a Silver Bag.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite nicely.

Shame is not your friend. It depletes your power. Let go of shame and embrace your magnificence.

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.

Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.