“The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.”

Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?

Has God forgotten everything I’ve done for him ?

The Last Argument of Kings.

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat.

In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.

One king, one law, one faith.

I see no point in reading.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

I am the State.

Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Only small minds want always to be right.

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.

It is legal because I wish it.

In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

I stepped into love with grace. I stepped out of love with grace. The beginning was beautiful. The ending was beautiful.

I’m doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.

I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love.

One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

It’s easy to get lost in endless speculation. So today, release the need to know why things happen as they do. Instead, ask for the insight to recognize what you’re meant to learn.