A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord.
It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.
We must screw down the expectations. We have to change our tactics and play with long balls
Well but, everything has an end, and an earthworm it has two.
I will never give in to old age until I get old. And I’m not old yet!
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
It’s okay to be a little fucked up in the head. We all are. It’s only when you’re fucked up in the heart that makes you a piece of shit.
One of the things I can’t get my hands on is something like “Mothers’ Clubs”, where instead of reading a book and walking in nature with their babies, they sit and talk about vomit and nappies and burping with other like-minded people and get nowhere. I think it bothers me a little in the women’s area.
You have to go through hell to be successful. There’s a reason the devil wears Prada.
At my age, you think about the afterlife. I’m mostly inclined to think there’s nothing there, but sometimes I can’t help but let my imagination run wild. My good friend Ulla Steen says she believes that all of us who like each other meet in the big angel bar where we are expected. I see myself arriving at the angel bar, and there’s my father, my husband and my son, and one of them says: “There’s Lise. Now we are four again for a l’hombre.
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
And what happens when you go away? When life’s shirt gets too short? Where is the common thread? You have to become something!
Only women, children, and dogs are loved unconditionally. A man is only loved under the condition he provides something.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
It was nice you came, but it’s even nicer that you go
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.
The hardest thing about doing good business is avoiding doing the bad ones.
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.
Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change.
Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution
There is always a bigger fish.
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.
Idleness is the root of all art
Too much learning can crack even the freshest!
If one is not happy with oneself, then why should others be?