Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.

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 road from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.

When you go home you ought to go like a ray of light—so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.

In 20 years of comedy, I've probably had a dozen good points.

Did you see Walker's father? 'My son loves America.' Yeah, like O.J. loved his wife.

There’s fish in here that I’ve read about that are so see-through that they’re invisible. So I don’t even think they know they exist.

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

You can get in a cab in Vancouver and the 20-year-old driver speaks more knowingly of Michael Ovitz than anyone in the industry. They just know! And it's perhaps not unhealthy.

Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.