To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.

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!

Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)

The days before, even the score of what you are filled in with today. What colour are you, the tangled hues of years gone by that affected you?

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.

I'm a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn't have much action movies.

Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.

I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]