Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

None but the brave deserves the fair.

God ever works with those who work with will.

How can I know who's PM or in government in Sweden? It's been 40 years since I moved abroad! Oh!

It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.

Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today