For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

Scatter joy!

There is a whole other world with an entirely different version of me, a me that is not pretty, a me that no boys want, a me she would never talk to.

When we merely follow another, we take a potentially creative mind out of service-our own.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

If you're in my shoes, and your goal is to leave people with the biggest possible smile on their face, then doing the meet-and-greet afterwards makes sense.

Men always say, "Let's see what you can do." If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

A great number of tourists have been flocking Iceland and those numbers are growing every year. That also raises questions like "How do we receive people?" and "How do we present our country?"