What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.