Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

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.

You decide every moment of every day who you are and what you believe in.The good news is you get another chance to improve in another second.

The only man worth having in your life is one that would never let you walk away.

Value systems of a nation come from families.

Reckless of my mortality, Strengthen me to behold a face, To know the spirit of a beloved oneYet to endure, yet to dare!

No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Could I ask if there’s anything in between Step One and Step Two? ‘Oh ye of little faith.’

If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.