Without businesse debauchery.

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're all broken, but thats how the light shines through.

There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

Kiss an angel good morning and love her like the devil when you get back home.

Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth.

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith right now?