With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.

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!

A smile is a sparkle of your soul and a glint of light from your heart.

We were all born with the potential to win massively, but you must still play your cards right in order to inevitably solidify it.

She was not the still quiet type. Aphrodites never are.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

I was born with six fingers on each hand.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognized for it.

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.