Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

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.

How to Write a PoemCatch the airaround the butterfly.

Sometimes a lie builds until the truth does more harm than good

Your obstacles are always counting on you to be fearful and doubtful because those are their only chances of defeating you.

What drives me is truly inspiring people to realize they can live more creative and simple lives.

What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

I think that when you don't see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.