Evil can kill a person but never conquer a people.

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.

By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.

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.

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 everything happens for a reason that means you made the right choice even when it’s the wrong choice

You cannot have qualifications without experience

Having accessible options restricts us from utilizing what we have exhaustively

The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.

You’re so sweet,' Frypan said with a snort. 'Go ahead and die with Thomas. I think I’ll sneak away and enjoy living with the guilt.

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.