Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing.

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!

Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.

Opportunity is swift of flight but slow to return.

Nothing, ' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.

It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible.