You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.

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!

No one knows your truth but you. If you're secure in yourself, no one and no(thing) can touch you.

We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.

You are always learning there is a lot of grey don't take things for granted.

Up above, we will defend the life of the trees and the mountains from further devastation. Down below [in the towns], we will spread death and mercy.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.