To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.

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!

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

[Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship. [excerpt from Act II, Scene 3]

Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

Look at yourself as someone who is reaching for healing, and at the complexity of what needs to be healed. Do not think that you exist alone without other human beings of equal complexity.

Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.

The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves.

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.