Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

The measure of greatness is in humility, simplicity, and in kindness.

Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

Don't follow the crowd. The side of the majority is the riskiest place to have dust thrown on your uniqueness.

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.