The way is an ill neighbour.

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!

Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve.

Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.

...though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves.

I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. It felt so good to feel normal for once, and then the next day, I was in the gym again.

As America, we aren't the country that we should be with Donald Trump as president.

On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail.

I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.

We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.