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

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.

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.

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.

A Happiness key: Maintain something to be enthusiastic about. Small/frequent goals = Dopamine hits that propel success.

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

Your only limitation in life is the limitation of your mind.

Even the brightest sun can be obscured by clouds, this is the power of nature.

Joy is God’s presence in our lives.

Anyway, I think the two of you should be free to do whatever you want right now. When you're young, you think the only way to happiness is the hard road... but it's actually much simpler than that.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble.

We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs and be vulnerable to suicide.

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.