Austria

 Capital:             Vienna
 Government:     federal republic
 Currency:         Euro (EUR)
 Area:                83,858 sq km
 Population:       8,199,783 (July 2007 est.)
 Language:         Austrian German, regional Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian

Austria Facts

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
-Billy Wilder

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
-Hedy Lamarr

All art is erotic.
-Gustav Klimt

Life is to blame for everything.
-Robert Musil

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
-Wilhelm Reich

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
-Stefan Zweig

All creative people want to do the unexpected.
-Hedy Lamarr

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
-Alfred Adler

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
-Robert Musil

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
-Anna Freud

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
-Hedy Lamarr

The goal of all life is death.
-Sigmund Freud

Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.
-Georg Trakl

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
-Viktor Frankl

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
-Otto Weininger

What is to give light must endure burning.
-Viktor Frankl

After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
-Bertha von Suttner

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
-Stefan Zweig

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
-Otto Weininger

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
-Georg Trakl