If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.

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!

And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.

We were two throats and one eye and we had no price.

To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

I try to project not only a song but a personality.

Projection into the future does not create security because the future is not really there. It's a fluid mirage. The only security is merging with The Field, right now.

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.