Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

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 think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

A mistake is a stepping stone to success

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.

I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.

[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.