If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

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!

Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.

With great power comes a great need to take a nap.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

All things are possible through invitation and love.

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.