My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be home.
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.
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.
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
Maintain a natural gait even if you shit your pants
When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times…I learned very early in life that: ‘Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend – without a song.’ So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.
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.
Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.
His shiny ice flashes like the sword of Athens in the setting French evening sun.
If you absolutely don’t have time to make your own mayonnaise, Hellmann’s Mayonnaise is the only store-bought mayonnaise that will do.
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.
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
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.
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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.
life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re gonna get.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
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.
Idleness is the root of all art
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 knew we had to drive on cobblestones, but I didn’t know they had thrown them down from a helicopter.