When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

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!

In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes.

Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.

I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat.

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sku was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

In striving to produce an attractive headline, the copywriter should not emphasize the "quick, easy way" to such an extent that the headline becomes unbelievable.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.