If you are deeply connected with yourself, with your energy, staying awake to yourself in the moment, other prisoners tend to leave you alone.

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].

What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.

My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

People don’t die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.

And even one life that bears witness to the truth of the prosperity law will quicken the consciousness of the whole community.

No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.