Power without [the people'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.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Give time, give space to sprout your potential. Awaken the beauty of your heart – the beauty of your spirit. There are infinite possibilities.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature

She came to me like an angelTried to change meBut a dog will always be a dogI didn't changeThings got worseLost herMaybe I will move on but its very hard to forget all the memories we made.

In the world of existence there is no more powerful magnet than the magnet of love.

I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.

By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.