Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

There are no friends; only moments of friendship.

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

No cause occurs without effect, and no effect occurs without cause. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.