The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house, as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
They are some fools, excuse the expression, because they know the terms, and yet we must listen to the Norwegians’ pathetic statements every year. Many of us are fucking tired of that.
Whoever said “it’s not just about winning” probably said it after losing.
Just because you’re unique, doesn’t mean you’re useful.
Life isn’t perfect but your outfit can be.
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. This is where the rich use public transport.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
I only earn 11 kroner per trip I sell, but it also becomes a part when I sell a million trips a year.
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.
A true master stands up when he cannot.
If you have to improvise, you have to be well prepared.
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
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 women’s struggle today is an individual struggle (…) You can’t demand equal pay if you also want to have a long maternity leave, stay at home when they are sick and be there primarily for the children.
I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you’ve bought all your houses and clothes, you want something bigger.
If it’s dancing, or anything else in life my darling, that matters to you, then don’t let anything or anyone stop you.
Many of the greatest talents are allowed to sloppy for training, and when I see the youth national team play, it strikes me that many of them are very focused on their hairstyles or Italian hair bands.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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.
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.
The winner blames himself. The loser blames others.
One must have a big nose to be able to smell something.
You have to take the wrinkles that come. And all those who get their skin sprayed and look like wounded warriors for a long time, become very little prettier, but look so sour. The smile is actually the best face-lift, I think.