The first dish pleaseth all.

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!

The ordinary are here to fit into the world

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

I spent much of my life hiding.

There is always something sad about the trams, may be because they are like our lives: They appear from nothingness and disappear in the horizon of the crowds.

You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.

Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young...

Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!