A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.

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!

Believe you are great and you will be great.

Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

Exactly like everything around us, we are made of the same elements of this earth and are totally dependent on this earth for our sustenance.

I'm real conscious about money still. That's how I came up and you can't shake that.

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

I just do my best to react to chaos with love, and hopefully, other people will catch on and do things out of love too.

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

The Lord saved my soul.