The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

The more the merrier.

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

Do not make yourself a bridge for everyone to cross on you, because there are some people they put nail on their feet to cross on you.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space and yet nothing troubles me less.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

If you don't think that you're the best, how do you become the best?

And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

There is always time enough in a day to do God's will.

Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.