The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Faith reveals the potential.

He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing "out there" is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.

Fashion is fortunately no law but to its devotees.

The time for the destruction of the world and its people hath arrived.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

In my world, history comes down to language and art.