If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.

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!

Satisfaction in life doesn't jump on you, you work for it, you earn it. You will not sit in a place, fold your hands and expect to be satisfied with life.

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

If the spirit of wonder & curiosity stays alive in us, then surely we will always have new questions, and always expand our creativity in response?

To sulk is to create a noise

Let's see if your right foot is as fearless as your mouth.

My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.

In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.