Woe to the house where there is no chiding.

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!

The great and the mighty that use their assets and power to subjugate people are demonstrating oppression.

I view real estate as the most intriguing opportunity that I've seen in my business lifetime.

I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.

Israel has obviously not liberated the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. We have occupied them, but we have not liberated them.

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral.

I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.