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.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

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.

Nothing is impossible to the man who will

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.

Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods.

I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.

My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

All play and no work makes me a happy girl

I don't want ta hear that kinda dirty talk comin' from you." "What, fanny? Fanny fanny fanny!

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had.