“Only small minds want always to be right.”

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.

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

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.

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.

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.

The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.

Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can’t control your mind, how will you realize God?

Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.

Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are.