A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
Happiness is always a coincidence.
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.
Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.
A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
