Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.

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!

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

a push up or two . . . or twenty.

I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.

Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university in Rabat.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

I was getting to perform with an actor with whom I had never interacted before

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

I belong on this earth in the way that an oak tree does.