To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.

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!

There is no fear in True Love. It is protective, and never gives a reason to doubt.

Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.

Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.

Things have really changed here in Hollywood. Used to be people in this town couldn't wait to get an envelope full of white powder.

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.

A group simply announcing a caliphate, is not enough to establish a caliphate.