If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

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.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

May you find the grace and willpower to fulfil your dream.

If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

Rights are subordinate to responsibilities.

I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.