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

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.

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

Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?

First feelings are always the most natural.

Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

I find my relationships at 40-plus are really emulsified, juicy relationships because you have more of a sense of who you are and who you want to be around.

I'd make a bad preacher.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.

The heart is a place of great light and their are different gradations of light that pass through the heart.

There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.

We must let our hopes be greater than our fears.

And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain.