Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a licence?

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.

Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

You want your film to get seen by as many people as possible. I mean nobody makes movies for themselves.

Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.