“Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.”

“If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.”

“Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.”

“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.”

“Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.”

“Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”