self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

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.

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything.

Out of ten people that desire a girl, five people are actually willing to do something to win her heart and from this five, one already has the girl while the other has to fight to win her heart.

They say love is blind . . . and marriage is an insritution. Well I'm nor ready for an instirurion for rhe blind just yet.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world's most dangerous regime, from developing the world's most dangerous weapons.

If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.

When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.

The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.