Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

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.

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go.

I am open to squeezing in whatever I can in this wonderful life. Instead of asking, "Is that all there is?" I seem, lately, to be always saying, "Wow!"

When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team.

The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.

I believe in soulmates, especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.