Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.

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!

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Many of our churches have become content with creating well-behaved constituents instead of forgiven children of God.

A breath, to keep one going, must be one's own.

You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.