The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.

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!

To every corner of the planet, to the young and old, to all humanity. I see your beauty. I really do.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.

Well there are a lot of things I like to eat but at this time of year I'm finding I'm making fig and chèvre salad at least once a week and that's a combo that's hard to beat.

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.

I'm frankly shocked that Hollywood hasn't called me to do a superhero.

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.