Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.

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!

Rising and falling of the sun confirm Your kingship and Your rulership.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

My only real job is to play well and do my job on the field. If I do that, all the other stuff will take care of itself.

I said to myself, 'If you don't sit down to it today, when will you ever sit down to it?'

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.