Arthur Schopenhauer

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

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

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

A person who trusts no one can’t be trusted.

You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.

I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The more natural, the better.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.