Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

When you become a father, it changes you." Snorri spoke towards the fire’s glow. "You see the world in new ways. Those who are not changed were not properly men to begin with.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Only the traveler knows the details of the journey.

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human, ' Miriam says.

There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

Where are the women? The women are here.

Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.

I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.