Jean Paul

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.