Smooth words in place of gifts. [Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.]

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

If GOD had a milk carton, would your face be on it?

You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

I want to be free and free indeed and live and live abundant!

It's fun that I get to live out my dream every single day. It's a blessing. I can't lose sight of that and I've just got to keep pushing.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.

I love mysteries on television – the more psychologically complex the better.

I talk too much when I'm nervous.