Each day is a new beginning, I know that the only way to live my life is to try to do what is right, to take the long view, to give of my best in all that the day brings, and to put my trust in God.
When you get as old as I am and no longer have a husband or dog, and the children have long since left home, you can sit and get a little wiser by thinking. Then it’s time to edit your memories and start looking at your life again. First come the regrets, then come the wrongs you’ve done, mistakes you’ve made – and all the things you can sit and brood over if you’re already in a bad mood. But you can also understand people and contexts in a new way.
The most memorable moments in life are the ones you never planned.
Being a rock star isn’t all fun and games. That’s a lot of money, too.
I desire nothing, but I want everything.
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.
Wearing unbranded and cheap clothes does not mean you are poor. Remember you have a family to feed, not a community to impress.
Well but, everything has an end, and an earthworm it has two.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
My family is so poor that we combined my father’s funeral with my 50th birthday.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
I wish I was a cow eating grass in a field. No rent. No job. No college. Just moo.
I will never give in to old age until I get old. And I’m not old yet!
You start by saving up 100 million kroner and take it from there.
My mom and dad didn’t love each other, so they were always fighting.
Do you ever miss yourself? The person you were before you had your first heartbreak or before you got betrayed by a person you trusted? I do.
I have a small walk-in closet, and it can easily turn into a recycling museum, so I’ve also learned to sort out. When you are as old as I am, it is very important not to get sloppy and wear boring clothes.
Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. This is where the rich use public transport.
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.
You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one.
And what happens when you go away? When life’s shirt gets too short? Where is the common thread? You have to become something!
If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.