If there's no bread cakes are very good.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

I don't want the cheese. I just want to get out of the trap.

With bread and wine you can walk your road.

From a fallen tree all make kindling.

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

Don't offer me advice give me money.

Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

The happiness of childhood, the calming of a child's fears and the healthy development of its self-confidence depend directly upon love.

In the life of mathematics two plus two makes four

The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.

Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.

Forget grammar and think about potatoes

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

If young people do see me as an example (I'm very flattered if they do!) I hope it is as someone who will go out there and live life to the full.