I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

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.

Great things only happen when we love the thing we are doing.

DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

People are irrelevant. They're as irrelevant as many other prominent leftists are.

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat.

I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.