There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out.
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. . . . Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. . . . The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.
I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.
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.
Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.
Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.
This is a victory against those who promote terrorism, against hypocrites who tout a supposed war on terror and in reality protect terrorists and jail young men who only acted to oppose terrorism in the United States.
Dermatology. . . this young daughter of medicine.