Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

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!

His plain, undecorated, and utilitarian work reeked week of provincialism.

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.

If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

He had on bunny slippers. These had fangs. They all stared at them in silence for about a heartbeat, and then Shane said, "That is impressively wicked. Crazy, but wicked.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me

There's a connectivity between your generation, my ministry and who I am as a person.

Being a powerful woman who also exhibits great warmth is an incredible feat because people think that to be powerful you have to be cold, and you don't.