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

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.

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.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

Love is waiting, just around the corner, over the hill...

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

What initially attracts us and what later becomes 'the problem' are usually one and the same.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

If you sell what you do, you're a vendor. If you sell why you do it, you're a brand.

This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.