I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
I knew we had to drive on cobblestones, but I didn’t know they had thrown them down from a helicopter.
If you absolutely don’t have time to make your own mayonnaise, Hellmann’s Mayonnaise is the only store-bought mayonnaise that will do.
I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you’ve bought all your houses and clothes, you want something bigger.
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
There is always a bigger fish.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re gonna get.
In a rain of dollar bills, anything can be done
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.
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.
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
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.
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.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
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.
Maintain a natural gait even if you shit your pants
A good breakfast can save the day.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
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.
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.