The Pyrenees are no more.

First feelings are always the most natural.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

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

It is legal because I wish it.

The Pyrenees are no more.

I am the state.

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

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.

Always follow good counsels.

As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I hope in the mercy of God.

I am dying, but the state remains.

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

It is impossible to please all the world.

My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.

My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.

Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.

The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.

We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.

You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

There is no great genius withou some touch of madness.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Obviously, Nevada doesn't prohibit all forms of gambling, but you have to submit yourself to a very rigorous regulatory process to run a gambling operation in Nevada.

I don't gamble at all, all my life. I am only interested in sports.

I will continue fighting to protect our Second Amendment rights.

Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.