The eye will have his part.

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's never too late to get down on your knees and pray.

There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would say. I have a great hunger for stories, he would say.

If you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this.

The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.

Do not allow Democrats anywhere near foreign policy. Not even to keep them away from domestic policy. It's a mistake to ask those who don't even like democracy to defend it.

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations

I'm the best player in the NBA.

Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.