I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

Love's overbrimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.

Alison Croggon

In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas...

Han Fei

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

Haile Gebrselassie

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

Sean O'Casey

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

Stephen King

He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died.

Sir Henry Wotton

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving

George Eliot

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.

Charles Kingsley

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

George Eliot

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Donald H. Mcgannon

Let others confide in you. It may not help you, but it surely will help them.

Roger G. Imhoff