A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Only entropy comes easy.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

To advise is not to compel.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Man is what he believes.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic