The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

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.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

I wish I had been more interested or learned sooner, but I didn’t, and now I must face the consequences.

Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

Let us learn from the Virgin Mary how to be bolder in obeying the word of God.

Night thoughts aren't to be trusted.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'