One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

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.

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.

Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

And any declaration of faith that does not result in a changed life and good works is a false declaration. It is faith alone that justifies. But faith that justifies can never be alone.

The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.