To marry once is a duty twice a folly thrice is madness.

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

He who has a choice has trouble.

When one friend washes another both become clean.

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.

God does not pay weekly but he pays at the end.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

God made the ocean but the Dutch made Holland.

The time some people spend worrying and crying about their problems is sometimes more than enough to find some effective solutions to them.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

I travel as much as I can and meet people.

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder.

There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.

Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.

Sometimes making people laugh or even making them scared can be accomplished by a good opening sequence.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.