Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.

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.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

Action often precedes the feeling.