I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Trust takes a long time to develop, but can be lost in the blink of an eye.

The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!

Not your parabatai any longer.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

Just sick enough to be totally confident

Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your teacher taught you to do in school.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.