When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.