On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

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!

Potter, you can skin Malfoy's shrivelfig.

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

Our mind is like a field, and performing actions is like sowing seeds in that field.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing

Tempt not a desperate man