In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

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!

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.

Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.

Look, that homeless guy is sleeping on my face. New York really is where dreams come true.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

Quality combines people power and process power.

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.

Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.