A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.

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!

I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I don’t have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons.

He was like nothing she’d ever known.Marcii hoped she would come to know him, for he was all she could ever have asked for and more.

A suffering person does not need a lecture—he needs a listener.

The hands of fate keep time on a heart-shaped clock.

All art is quite useless.

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.

I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.

Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

I guess entertainment means blatantly lyin'