Thornes whiten yet doe nothing.

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!

Education does not solve any problem but it gives you the ability to solve the problem.

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.

I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.

[Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self. Self that refuses to die. Self that refuses to sacrifice. Self that refuses to give. Self that refuses to go.