nothing is guaranteed.... So don't be afraid. Be alive.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless...

My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research.

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.