Where there is love there is pain.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

I don't want the cheese. I just want to get out of the trap.

With bread and wine you can walk your road.

From a fallen tree all make kindling.

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

Don't offer me advice give me money.

Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

I love you as my shadow loves me.

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.

We largely become what we have observed and respected.

As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

Daft as a brush? I'm daft, but I'm not daft as a brush!

People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.

I'm close to six feet, I like to think.