bad news travels faster than good.

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.

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.

In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.

To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.

I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.

The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder." "A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes," Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute.

It is very difficult to stop feeling.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.