Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
Of course, I have nothing against the language changing, but there must be reasonableness in it, so that it does not become a mere gas can. On the other hand, new words are sometimes added that I wouldn’t do without – for example, “smug”. It’s my new favorite word. It’s a wonderfully oily word, a precise word that covers a certain type of person with a high degree of self-confidence in their own abilities.
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
The one who comes first to the mill gets milled first
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?
Never listen to girls on how to get girls. If you’re trying to catch fish you don’t ask another fish. You ask the Fisherman.
…the image is one thing and the human being is another…it’s very hard to live up to an image.
You are only as happy as your least happy child-
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
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.
It is better to have clean nails than soil between the ears.
Til we meet again, may God bless you. Adios.
The more you grow, the more you realize that nothing is more important than sleep.
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.
I am self-created. I always wanted to make myself a better person because I wasn’t educated. But that was my dream – to have class.
My legacy is that I stayed the course… from start to finish because I believed in something inside of me.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
Now the gossip must stop. Now I’m tired of getting sucked into your columns. Then you must sue me if you dare.
I only earn 11 kroner per trip I sell, but it also becomes a part when I sell a million trips a year.
Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
If it’s dancing, or anything else in life my darling, that matters to you, then don’t let anything or anyone stop you.