These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.