Lend only what you can afford to lose.

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!

There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room...

The faster you go, the idler you get.

There's a difference between being alive and living.

I live to love and I love to be happy.

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.

I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.