Money wants no followers.

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!

Everything stinks till it’s finished.

Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try, " Ernest Hemingway in "Blast".

What we believe about something often creates the outcome we experience.

Let go of rousing speechand identification with thoughtsUntil your endyou will never be jaded

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

Were really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way.

The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

Always be just and honest so that every time you look at the mirror you don't see an abominable creature on it!

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.