Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.

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!

...we are a narrative, storytelling species. Revealing our own histories, and understanding those of others can really help us appreciate the humanity in all of our fellow individuals.

A selfie is a proof that either we are very lonely or too self absorbed to ask others to take our picture.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.