Nothing is impossible to the man who will

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.

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.

We were so little when you took away all our sins.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.

Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.

I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill.

You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try not to [be abstract], it comes out really forced and awkward.