Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.

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!

So many lives are in bitterness today not just because of how their pasts were abused, but how they think they were innocent.

New York is all about sort of a corporate sensibility, and it is squeezed out room for any other kind of sensibility, money talks, bullshit walks, I guess.

Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation.

The work doesn't begin until you get tired!

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails.

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.