He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

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.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are.

I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.

When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus.

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.

I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why.