They judge lest they be judged.

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.

He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.

Slavery is impossible without the consent of the slave. Fear imprisons the mind, Faith. You either accept this prison by following the rules made by others. Or you break free, by making your own.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.

Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

St. Elsewhere was certainly a great show

Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul.

Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.