It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
It doesn’t get any easier, you just get faster.
I will not promise to make history. But nothing is impossible.
…the image is one thing and the human being is another…it’s very hard to live up to an image.
It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize that there is always a way to solve problems without using violence.
My uncle always said: There are two kinds of music: country and western.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
I like Danish humour – I just wish you had more of it.
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
Der er kun én succes – at kunne tilbringe dit liv på din egen måde.
My parents have been there for me ever since I was 7 years old.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
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.
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.
It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.
We did not underestimate them. They were just so much better than we expected.
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind.
All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair, I was still just a naive young boy really. With Peugeot, and es[Simpson]pecially with Tom [Simpson], it was completely different.
I’m attracted to myths.
When my parents went to Knoxville for work, I stayed with my dad’s mom. She was strict – the type to stiffen up and iron dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I entered the house with my hair pulled out, the ribbon off my dress, dirty as heck. I always got spanked.
The early bird catches the worm
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.
The one who comes first to the mill gets milled first
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying.