We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.

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!

Sovereignty is not to be considered as an attribute of God-in the sense of being a quality which exists in God (such as omnipotence and omniscience)-rather it is the result of His attributes.

He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.

I am counting on the private sector, because it is crucial to Senegal's future.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

I love you - but don't touch me.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good.

Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.