The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

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.

My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.

A pair of skinny jeans and a tattoo does not make you a leader.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

At no time will we be more Christlike than when we are a friend.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it.

If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young.