He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.

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.

Love connects a man to his woman, money a woman to his man

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate.

My biggest fear isn't crashing this bike at 85mph and losing my skin - it's sitting in a chair at 90 and thinking 'I wish I'd done more'

I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

a windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton.

I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

We always welcome when somebody says he or she is ready to work with Russia.