The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

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!

I'm avoiding tomorrow, by spending more time in today.

For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

Before, by yourself, you couldn't. Now, you've turned to our Lady, and with her, how easy!

The defence of democracy must consist in making anti-democratic experiences too costly for those who try them; much more costly than a democratic compromise

If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.

I certainly do not begin with any meaning. It is as though my hands do all the thinking.

I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.