I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you’ve bought all your houses and clothes, you want something bigger.
Too much learning can crack even the freshest!
Idleness is the root of all art
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
Life is like a game of chess. I don’t know how to play chess.
If you absolutely don’t have time to make your own mayonnaise, Hellmann’s Mayonnaise is the only store-bought mayonnaise that will do.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
I hate all those weathermen who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing, so get yourself a sexy raincoat and live a little.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. This is where the rich use public transport.
I knew we had to drive on cobblestones, but I didn’t know they had thrown them down from a helicopter.
In the past, we learned to cope with challenges ourselves. Today, a lot of people younger than me are not resistant to the vicissitudes and emotional challenges of life. If you’ve been told all your life that it’s the others who should spoil you and keep you free of problems, you’re probably a very sober person emotionally.
If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
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.
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.
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
You have to take the wrinkles that come. And all those who get their skin sprayed and look like wounded warriors for a long time, become very little prettier, but look so sour. The smile is actually the best face-lift, I think.
It’s okay to be a little fucked up in the head. We all are. It’s only when you’re fucked up in the heart that makes you a piece of shit.
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.
His shiny ice flashes like the sword of Athens in the setting French evening sun.
When you get as old as I am and no longer have a husband or dog, and the children have long since left home, you can sit and get a little wiser by thinking. Then it’s time to edit your memories and start looking at your life again. First come the regrets, then come the wrongs you’ve done, mistakes you’ve made – and all the things you can sit and brood over if you’re already in a bad mood. But you can also understand people and contexts in a new way.