I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

There were some great clinicians in the 20th century – great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius – there’s a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

Music is like film to me.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.