I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Meditation is the simplest process through which you can create harmony between the body, mind, spirit, and nature.

That intimacy is nice, too - knowing that you know so much about someone.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years-I didn't want to interrupt her.

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door.

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.

Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.