We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

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!

no matter how big his smile or how loud his laugh, you could hear the hurt underneath.

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.