One sword keeps another in the sheath.

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!

How far can your imagination take you? I don't know. That's up to you, but I think you should find out.

You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be.

All what is existing already existed. We are together for a while pondering in agile world.

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.

I've done a lot of tough stories over the years. I've done a lot of profiles over the years that have not always been, shall we say, helpful for the person who is being written about.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.