Welcome evill, if thou commest alone. [Welcome evil, if thou comest alone.]

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!

Mama said there would be days like this.She never said it would be day after day, after day!~ Unknown

Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

Find something to feel good about and get out of the way, and allow the cells to receive what they've been asking for. That is the key to healing.

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.