The most memorable moments in life are the ones you never planned.
Remember, when you point a finger at someone there are three more pointing back at you.
I wish I was a cow eating grass in a field. No rent. No job. No college. Just moo.
It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize that there is always a way to solve problems without using violence.
I’m called the poorest president, but I do not feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
Some of life’s big questions: Where do we come from, where are we going and where do we put the empty bottles?
Money is not everything, only about 87.5 percent
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. This is where the rich use public transport.
Over the years, those who have seemed to me to be the most happy, contented and fulfilled have always been the people who have lived the most outgoing and unselfish lives.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
You have to take the wrinkles that come. And all those who get their skin sprayed and look like wounded warriors for a long time, become very little prettier, but look so sour. The smile is actually the best face-lift, I think.
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
If we think that the way we live is good enough, then we’re completely wrong. You have to be able to doubt so that you can see that it can be done differently.
People think my life has been hard, but I think it’s been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realize that it’s not about what happens, but how you deal with it.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
At my age, you think about the afterlife. I’m mostly inclined to think there’s nothing there, but sometimes I can’t help but let my imagination run wild. My good friend Ulla Steen says she believes that all of us who like each other meet in the big angel bar where we are expected. I see myself arriving at the angel bar, and there’s my father, my husband and my son, and one of them says: “There’s Lise. Now we are four again for a l’hombre.
Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution
If you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you.
We never played hide and seek when we were children. No one ever bothered to look for us.
If you ever find yourself cringing at something you did in the past, it means you have grown as a person.
Accepting your nose is the first step to self-love.
I am completely overwhelmed. It’s a good thing you don’t turn 100 every day. Even though I don’t have that much energy anymore, I still want to take a few more years.
I’ve never worried about my color. I never had the black thing. If the whole world was like this, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe it is. I don’t have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
My family is so poor that we combined my father’s funeral with my 50th birthday.