Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]

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!

I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.

Love is a broken vase whose shape everyone remembers differently.

I have way too much going on, as usual, but fortunately it's all good stuff. I'm not complaining.

The one overall structure in my plays is language

I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.

The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.