"Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away!"

“One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.”

“Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing refrain.”

“I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.”

“I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.”

“I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job.”

Source : "Elena Anaya: Almodóvar's new leading lady" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2011.

“The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction.”

“In all my unhappiness I was moving, and suddenly, this moving became an expression, a speaking out”

“You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.