Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

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 secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility.

Prayer is not supposed to be magical.

Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams he (life) continued to lie still, pretended as if he was in a deep slumber.

The Bible and the history of the church both demonstrate that God’s way for the suffering of His people has not always been the way of escape, but the way of endurance.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

Great people create great acts of kindness.

I'm in high heels, I'm wearing a fabulous dress, people want me to just smile and talk about my movie because I only have three minutes, and that's my job.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.