Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers.

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!

Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.

I fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work.

You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.

Improvement is nature.

I feel most alive when I'm surrounded by family and friends, and when I am working.

A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.

God not only wants to break the outer man...He wants our spirit and our soul...our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.