There is always a bigger fish.
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.
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
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.
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.
My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be home.
A good breakfast can save the day.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving, him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
In a rain of dollar bills, anything can be done
Too much learning can crack even the freshest!
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.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
I knew we had to drive on cobblestones, but I didn’t know they had thrown them down from a helicopter.
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. This is where the rich use public transport.
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.
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.
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.
Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, itøs probably crap.
I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you’ve bought all your houses and clothes, you want something bigger.
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 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.
One of the things I can’t get my hands on is something like “Mothers’ Clubs”, where instead of reading a book and walking in nature with their babies, they sit and talk about vomit and nappies and burping with other like-minded people and get nowhere. I think it bothers me a little in the women’s area.