Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.

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.

Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?

OMG! I DESIGNED THIS NEW SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM! IT'S CALLED "POETRY" - YOU HAVE TO READ AMY KING'S POEMS TO GET AN INVITE ~

The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.

Trump is a very specific case. It's really gonna be hard to replicate that.

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours.