Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can. [Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can.]

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!

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.

Appreciation for cultural diversity is essential for our co-existence.

To be envied for your giftedness is better than to be accepted for your untalentedness.

Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.

If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.

We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.