Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.

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 terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

I called my mom, and I was so excited. I was telling her, 'I'm going to be on the Grand Ole Opry! This is crazy!' And she told me, 'Watch out for Jimmy Dickens, because he likes the pretty girls.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear.

Being a teenager is hard.

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.