Words are women, deeds are men.

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!

Correct the blunders on your face made through self-delusion – this would be far more fitting than to want to teach me, which is just as if a sow trying to teach Minerva.

The universe is soo huge, it would be a pity if we were alone

People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown you in floods of turmoil

I’m starting to get used to this feeling of not caring about anything.

You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

We would do the same thing that America did when the Jap[an] - when, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. America defended itself. They said praise the Lord, but they passed the ammunition.

What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion And that which we do with the dead, Is the name of the honestest man in the nation: What more of a man can be said?

If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well.