the title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was. ... This idea of a crown began running in my head then like a tune, and has been running a lot in it ever since.

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.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

Control charts are one of the statistical tools for solving quality related problems.

Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.