The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

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.

Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.

He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.

The Constitution empowers the people to resolve our day's most contentious issues. When judges forget this basic truth, they do a disservice to our democracy and to our constitution.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.

Always remember that you are bigger than the moment, you are more than anything that could ever happen to you.