“The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.”

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life.

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

I am not a myth.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet – it’s gone.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.

If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.

This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

I would go swaggering into restaurants in some ridiculous tramp disguise, challenging them to mistreat me, order the things I was least likely to enjoy, then hurl my plate aside in a fury and demand to see the manager.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.