It is better to have clean nails than soil between the ears.
If one is silent for too long, then the tongue withers
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
I dont do drugs. I am drugs.
If one is not happy with oneself, then why should others be?
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
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.
It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.
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.
If you have to improvise, you have to be well prepared.
I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
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.
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.
The more you grow, the more you realize that nothing is more important than sleep.
If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you’re not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later.
The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, ‘What’d I do? What’d I do?’ And he said “Whatever it is, go back and do it again.
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
My legacy is that I stayed the course… from start to finish because I believed in something inside of me.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
When you are extra strong, you have a special obligation to be sweet to others
They say it’s the white man I should fear, but it’s my own kind doing all the killing here.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you like what you do, you will succeed.
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
All warfare is based on deception.