When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.

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!

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

I spend my days trying to remember what only my soul knows but my mind can't comprehend.

Do you really understand all this army stuff?It helps not to be too bright, sir.

I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.

Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.

There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it, but there are. As long as there are some, there's hope.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.