In case of doubt decide in favor of what is correct.

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.

One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the doubt even to one's enemies

The young man who appeared at the mouth of the alley was pale in the lamplight—paler even than he usually was, which was quite pale indeed.

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

It comes down to taking care of the people in your program and making them the best they can be-not giving up on them and never failing to be there for them.

I sometimes get caught up in the big goals...That aren't really the ultimate goal, which is to be happy for what you have.

Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.