Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

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.

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

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests.

If Hitler were alive the best punishment would be to put him out-of-town with a new musical.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

It seems that in connecting to what is true within myself, I help other people to connect. Making genuine connection lies at the beginning of building a real community.

One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.

Cubism is fascinating to me. I love trying to figure it out. It's just a different way of seeing... I think there are many avenues that haven't been explored yet.

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.