Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
When you are extra strong, you have a special obligation to be sweet to others
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?
Nogle gange ønsker folk ikke at høre sandheden, fordi de ikke vil have deres illusioner ødelagt.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
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.
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.
If one is not happy with oneself, then why should others be?
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
If one is silent for too long, then the tongue withers
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
If you only want to see dog shit, then there is dog shit.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
The early bird catches the worm. The early worm gets eaten.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The most memorable moments in life are the ones you never planned.