Love and businesse teach eloquence.

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!

You will find the path of life when your inner compass is ready.

Whatever is true about your heart will show up in your actions.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Living one's life with unguarded vulnerability is one of the keys to happiness. It's also one of the keys to getting mugged.

If you are looking for your purpose or calling, you will find it in your pain.

If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

What I'm saying so badly is we're bred now to believe we're in control and should be in control.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.