The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

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.

True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly.

Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father.

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.

Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.

I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.