Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

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.

Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.

An inch of light can conquer a mile of darkness.

Someone who does not practice what he preaches expresses only hypocrisy.

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.

The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.

In the United States, anybody can be President. That's the problem.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

All things living are in search of a better world .

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

For government to give, it must first take away.