War is death's feast.

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!

How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal farther?

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

I sing a bit and play guitar.

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

A scoop of pure honey set in a green bowl.

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

The country will survive Obama, but it cannot survive the abject ignorance that elected him.

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.