First feelings are always the most natural.

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 ?

The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.

Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.

The imagination is like a muscle: it strengthens through use.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.

We will never obtain God's kind of marriage simply by going along with the crowd, doing what everybody else does. We have to dig deep into the heart of God to discover His principles.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.