Fran Lebowitz

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

You are so much more than what people have done to you, and to let that define you, would be a tragedy.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

[On leaving Brooklyn] I left the day I graduated high school.

Failure is no accident.

If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.