Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

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 opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

Provided there is a church which proclaims the mutual humanity and deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, evil will never be able to bring it to the point of attrition.

It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.

Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

As soon as you are complicated, you are ineffectual.

I am the world's worst good bridge player.

Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

Pure memory isn't based on recall but rather involuntary memory that's in your body and your nerves.

All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought

I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing.