Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

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.

If... I focus only on what God commands for us as wives to do, it detracts nothing from God's commands for our men. His Word for them still stands.

With red clay between my toes, and the sun setting over my head, the ghost of my mother blows in, riding on a honeysuckle breeze, oh lord, riding on a honeysuckle breeze.

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

It was tough, I gave everything I had on those match points but she just came up with better shots. I still find it very hard to believe. Its amazing.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Your number was up the first time I met you.

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.