Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.

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!

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach out to you.

Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.

Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.

If the economy is not expanding, the redistribution of income becomes a zero-sum game. And therefore, all the class struggle - and it becomes much more vicious.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.