The vertue of a coward is suspition.

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!

Even "meant to be" takes work.

The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

If you risk nothing you gain nothing

Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world.

You do this, you do that You argue left, you argue right You come down, you go up This person says no, you say yes Back and forth You are happy You are really happy

Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.

Don't cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.