In the band, we only drink three drinks a day: two golden beers and a bottle of port.
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.
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.
I don’t think you should think too much about the fact that time is passing and you’re not a teenager anymore. Then you just get plagued and get even more wrinkles and look even more grumpy and sad.
If you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you.
Life is like a game of chess. I don’t know how to play chess.
It may be that you can not buy love for money – but you can buy something similar to confusion.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.
I will never give in to old age until I get old. And I’m not old yet!
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.
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.
You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
Remember, when you point a finger at someone there are three more pointing back at you.
You start by saving up 100 million kroner and take it from there.
In a rain of dollar bills, anything can be done
Money is not everything, only about 87.5 percent
I’ve never given myself a lot of credit because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself – when I got divorced and took control of my life.
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.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions .
Bitter? No, it’s something we drink.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.