Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

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.

The mind does strange things when confronted with sights it doesn’t want to process, sometimes leading to actions that would be deemed inappropriate at any other time

The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

My best vacation is your worst nightmare.

Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.

It was like I’d stepped out into an afterlife. Only there were no angels.

The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.

Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.

Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.