To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
You fiddle lucker!' she cried.
I think I realised, at teachers' training school, that I felt that the culture that I came from, the Sámi culture, was not good enough, so I wanted to be Norwegian or European, I wanted to forget the culture. And then this music started to. . . in a way I had to ask myself "why is this, and what does all this come from?
It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.