A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

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.

Training of parts leads to training of the whole.

Love is not all you need – you will also need food, clothes and a roof over your heads. Silly, but so true.

Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars.

I'm not suffering from withdrawal symptoms. I would say that I have a balanced state of mind.

There's real beauty in pushing yourself to expose the real you in more ways.

Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.