I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

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.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

He'd never known he had so much fight in him. Never known he could be capable of so much... He was going to change the world.

In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

The key to beating the Dodgers is to keep them form hugging each other too much.

To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself.

Truth, like beauty, is neither created nor lost.

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.