I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

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.

Friendship is thinking of the other person first.

It is infinitely better to rely on the pursuit of economic interest by landowners or street companies than to depend on the dubious “altruism” of bureaucrats and government officials.

You may slip but God isn't going to let you down. His loving arms will always be there to catch you.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

I don't think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

There are some things Ronaldo can do with a football that make me touch my head and wonder how on earth he did it.

I think we have moved from a shareholder society to a stakeholder society, and that has massive implications.