Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Nothing is impossible to the man who will

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.

Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats.

A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Hey, Amy, did you ever want to, like, get on the conveyor belt and see what happened? Like,'Hey don't mind me, I'm just hanging with cargo'?

Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.