In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.]

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!

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.

It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's not something we learn much in our culture growing up.

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.