To rise from the ashes only to have them rain on you from above.

Better to be a catalyst for change than a martyr for lies.

The human heart isn't meant to be caged by someone who doesn't feed it.

Try and make it right, and if you can't, that's on them, not you. Forgiveness shouldn't be stockpiled by anyone. It should be given freely.

Love isn't a choice. I can't control how I feel about him any more than I can control the sun in the sky. But what I can do is control what I do with those feelings.

My mother is quite the character. You'd hate her. Sometimes I think I hate her too, but mainly I feel sorry for her. Which is kind of worse.

We are forever surrounded by ash. But we are fire. And fire rises.

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...

Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them move into my house. Would you Helen? Would you really?

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

I always knew I was a dust. But I never knew I was also a universe.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!

I'm not waiting for times to change I want to live like a free-roaming soul on the highway of our love.

In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.