To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

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.

Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower.

The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her

I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart

Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon.

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

Teenage dreams so hard to beat

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.