It is a great victory that comes without blood.

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!

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

Man cannot choose his duties.

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.