Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler.

I am afraid... But I keep on loving what's on the other side of this fight, and that will have to make me brave.

Love is light.Light is life.

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do

I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.

So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.