When fire and water are at war it is the fire that loses.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

I don't want the cheese. I just want to get out of the trap.

With bread and wine you can walk your road.

From a fallen tree all make kindling.

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

Don't offer me advice give me money.

Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.

Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis.

I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.

Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.