As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

Life is a sacred spark of divinity.

We must not only observe but listen to the sound of nature.

I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

I want find to beauty in the world but to do so requires you to acknowledge and confront the darkness.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

Life is like a box of cookies.

My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.

Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.