The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.

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!

A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.

if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou, then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you, do something else.

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran ... in one shot on his website he appears to be dressed only in flowers. Oh - here's the page, you'll see what I mean.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.