Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

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!

You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

I've been a Democrat all my life.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Anger is short-lived madness.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy.

I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer

My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.

I passed out in our front yard. But honey, don't turn out the light, cause I think I'm in the mood for love tonight.