Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

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.

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

Our lives are co-authored in dialogue.

In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.

The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it.

We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.