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We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.

The answer to violence is even more democracy, even more humanity...

As long as NATO changes when the world is changing, we will be very important for the security of all our allies, including the United States.

Evil can kill a person but never conquer a people.

In the end, democratic societies are stronger and more resilient than any autocracy. And more adaptable too.

We are seeking to avoid a new Cold War, avoid a new arms race, and, therefore, we continue to work for a more constructive relationship with Russia, including political dialogue with Russia.

We see a more assertive Russia, which has implemented a very significant military buildup over several years, and a Russia which has used military force against neighbors, especially Ukraine.

Turkey's a valued ally, important ally for NATO, not the least because of its strategic geographic location, bordering Syria and Iraq and close to Russia and the Black Sea.

Today we are all Egyptians.

If the retreat house was a trap, it was a very nice one.

Self-doubt and Depression are the real killers. The other are just pawns.

Loving others isn't about us at all. And until that sinks in, we'll never be able to love the way Christ truly loved.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?