Quotes from Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.

The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.

Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.

Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.