Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

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 the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

My daddy's response [to fear of being poor] was to never talk about money or what might happen if it ran out.

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.

If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.

When we cooperate, everybody wins.

My heart has been stolen by you.