Nothing lasts but the Church.

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!

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived—what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.

If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste.

War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.

Remain true to the earth.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

The dangerous glorification of the nation state, and the baiting of minorities that goes along with it, releases an anti-democratic energy.