Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.

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.

Till the sun grows cold And the stars are old And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.

There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.

When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

I've always had facility with the German accent.

Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company