"During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface"

"Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it"

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology"

"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows"

"Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems"

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"

"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge"