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.
Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.
I knew we had to drive on cobblestones, but I didn’t know they had thrown them down from a helicopter.
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
Maintain a natural gait even if you shit your pants
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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.
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.
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.
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re gonna get.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
The pill is one of the biggest advances I’ve seen.
Idleness is the root of all art
Life is like a game of chess. I don’t know how to play chess.
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.
If you only want to see dog shit, then there is dog shit.
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.
Lotto is a tax for stupid people. An extra tax.
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.
There is always a bigger fish.
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.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.