The great would have none great and the little all little.

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!

Great men of old and of today never considered themselves only human, they also considered themselves gods. And god! See what hat great achievement have they realized!

They sought the pain they knew so well and called it love.

This president [Barack Obama ] has seen personnel records of people who have sacrificed for the American people and for the federal government stolen by the Chinese and he's done nothing in return.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide', and he told me from now I have to pay in advance.

America's best days are yet to come.