The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

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.]

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!

Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.

Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves.

We celebrate the event not the time.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

You don't have to lose your sense of style once you become a mom!

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.

Bans are laws for the stupid.

I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.