Abraham Maslow

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write to ultimately be at peace with himself.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Now payback is a bad bitch and baby, I’m the baddest.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

If gold rust what shall the iron do?

They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.

I think us bad b*tc*es is a gift from God.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

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

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.