I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

The Joy of one SUCCESS can overcome the Heartaches of twenty Failures.

The order of the universe is like a gem with many facets, and we see only one, that which reflects the existence of our own world.

Sometimes reality is a fantastically traumatic nightmare.

I prefer the school of life.

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.

I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.