To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Nothing is impossible to the man who will

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.

History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.

River is river.

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

If I lose you because of the blind idiot I've been then I will be the one who is destroyed

I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.

I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.

If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.