The pill is one of the biggest advances I’ve seen.
The more you grow, the more you realize that nothing is more important than sleep.
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
I desire nothing, but I want everything.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
I am completely overwhelmed. It’s a good thing you don’t turn 100 every day. Even though I don’t have that much energy anymore, I still want to take a few more years.
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
My biggest beauty secret is to be happy with myself. I don’t use special creams or treatments – I use a little bit of everything. It’s a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I think a lot of how you look has to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the secret of beauty.
I don’t think you should think too much about the fact that time is passing and you’re not a teenager anymore. Then you just get plagued and get even more wrinkles and look even more grumpy and sad.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Remember, when you point a finger at someone there are three more pointing back at you.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. This is where the rich use public transport.
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
Just because you’re unique, doesn’t mean you’re useful.
If you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you.
My articles were based on something I wanted to change. Everyone has the right to a decent life, and I thought it was important to give vulnerable people support and confidence. I was brought up to respect other people.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
Each day is a new beginning, I know that the only way to live my life is to try to do what is right, to take the long view, to give of my best in all that the day brings, and to put my trust in God.
I have a small walk-in closet, and it can easily turn into a recycling museum, so I’ve also learned to sort out. When you are as old as I am, it is very important not to get sloppy and wear boring clothes.
You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one.
It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize that there is always a way to solve problems without using violence.