It's more paine to doe nothing then something.

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!

The aware do not die

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.

I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.

Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.

Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.

Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.