The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

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.

Too much has been given and too much has been lost.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

Some people move our souls to dance.

It's not whether people like you but whether they share the bright dreams...and understand the heartbeat of the country.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job.

Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'

Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.