He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.

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!

Even the loveliest shoulders can bear but so much.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don’t get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

Each day is a start of a new adventure, and I eagerly look forward to today.

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.

I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.