Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.

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!

You'll never grab the wonderful with your feet on the ground.

I don't know anyone who's going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory loss and forgot that he's seen it.

When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.

I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.

Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.

I don't want my hair to be ridiculous. But in Texas I do wear a hat a lot, so I probably have hat-head more than I'm aware of.