When you are extra strong, you have a special obligation to be sweet to others
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
If one is not happy with oneself, then why should others be?
If one is silent for too long, then the tongue withers
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
Nogle gange ønsker folk ikke at høre sandheden, fordi de ikke vil have deres illusioner ødelagt.
The early bird catches the worm. The early worm gets eaten.
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
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.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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.
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.
The most memorable moments in life are the ones you never planned.