There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

Kindness has a power to change.

Our prayers must be in accordance with the will of God for the simple reason that God knows better what is good for us than we know ourselves.

But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

An individual is a four-dimensional objectof greatly elongated form

It ain't nothing till I call it.

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!