One king, one law, one faith.

I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]

It is legal because I wish it.

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.

Only small minds want always to be right.

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?

First feelings are always the most natural.

Building trust takes long- years, sometimes decades. It takes a second, a word, or a misstep to lose it. Regaining trust takes even longer.

New Orleans is just a doggone fun place to be.

Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.

There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

I know what you are, Talon. You are the man I was born to love. The only man I was born to love.” “I’m not a man. Not anymore.” “You are mine and I will not let you go without a fight.

My Dad wanted me to be able to play with him and my brothers. I was the only girl!