I knew we had to drive on cobblestones, but I didn’t know they had thrown them down from a helicopter.
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
In the past, we learned to cope with challenges ourselves. Today, a lot of people younger than me are not resistant to the vicissitudes and emotional challenges of life. If you’ve been told all your life that it’s the others who should spoil you and keep you free of problems, you’re probably a very sober person emotionally.
I have a small walk-in closet, and it can easily turn into a recycling museum, so I’ve also learned to sort out. When you are as old as I am, it is very important not to get sloppy and wear boring clothes.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
In a rain of dollar bills, anything can be done
Life is like a game of chess. I don’t know how to play chess.
There is always a bigger fish.
It’s okay to be a little fucked up in the head. We all are. It’s only when you’re fucked up in the heart that makes you a piece of shit.
The longer I stay at home, the more homeless I look.
One of the things I can’t get my hands on is something like “Mothers’ Clubs”, where instead of reading a book and walking in nature with their babies, they sit and talk about vomit and nappies and burping with other like-minded people and get nowhere. I think it bothers me a little in the women’s area.
I need ammunition, not a ride.
If you only want to see dog shit, then there is dog shit.
If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?
If you absolutely don’t have time to make your own mayonnaise, Hellmann’s Mayonnaise is the only store-bought mayonnaise that will do.
A man should only work 4 hours a day so he may have time to devote himself to the arts and sciences.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
Too much learning can crack even the freshest!
Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, itøs probably crap.
I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you’ve bought all your houses and clothes, you want something bigger.
Isn’t it great to see so many men in bike shorts?
Idleness is the root of all art
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.