Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

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 have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.

Questions can be more dangerous than swords.

A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

As long as there are those who are willing to shed blood and take innocent life in the name of religion, the name of God, the world will never know a true and lasting peace.

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

Change does not take time - it takes commitment.

People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.