I see no point in reading.

I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]

One king, one law, one faith.

It is legal because I wish it.

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.

Only small minds want always to be right.

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

There are certain times you rattle the press's cages, and other times you don't, and you have to be discerning about it.

Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.

I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.

When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.

The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression.