What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

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.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed.

I guess the breakfast burritos are going to have some extra protein in the morning.

Why surround yourself with people who constantly pull you back, when you could be with those who would push you forward to the land of abundance?

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

We need to support our police officers and make sure that community policing becomes something that becomes the standard across the country.

The supporters...It is true that they are dangerous when they run close to the riders. From there to throwing a punch. That is a step.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.

The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.