Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.

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!

Hate nobody

Life is not a circle. It is a straight line that has ups and downs.

Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him.

Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon.

The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt.

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.