I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

All political power is a trust.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

You can twist perception, reality won't budge

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

If women were humbler, men would be honester.

You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.

Stop this agony of wishing Play it out Don't think, don't hesitate Curving back within yourself Just create... Just create

There's so much about the strong black woman stereotype that makes us forget that we do need and deserve help and care.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.