That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.

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!

It had always been a breathtaking view, the kind that made him inhale and forget to exhale . . .

She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.

I'll have to remember that for the future. When in a life-or-death battle, be sure to club unconscious everyone on your side as early on in the fight as possible, " Laura said, laughing.

I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid I get that I'm going to stop seeing things.

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.

Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even.

Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.