Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

The wonder of the womb is the birth of a child.

What do you think the Order is going to do?" he asks. "Help us open a door to Hell, if we're lucky, " I reply. Lucky. Ha ha. The irony.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.

As a kid, I can't remember having anything to play with except a loose tooth. And that wasn't mine. It was my brother's.

There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it.