A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

Wasting time is living in self glorification instead of glorifying God as God is time

People-based service is God-based service

Unconditional love in any form is the greatest gift life can ever give you.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

I've never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

Clarity precedes mastery and the more clear you can get on what you want to create in life, the more focused you will be in your daily behaviors.