A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

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.

Blame is a choice that doesn't give you directions out of hell.

God has forgiven and still forgives us when we repent from our sins, an indication that we are not called to sin, but to live in accordance with His will.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

Despite its increased dependence on the international economy, America continues to behave as if it were either a closed economy or the leader whom everyone else should automatically follow.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.