It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

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.

How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?

Yeah 'cause throwing knives at a girk is totally Going to get her to like you. #Tobiaslogic

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.

A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

I don’t know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn’t mine, that’s for sure.