Wee know not who lives or dies.

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!

Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right.

I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.

Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.

I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."

Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it.

I am what I photograph.

[Belafonte]'d take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.