“Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.”

“A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”

“Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.”

“What is a throne? — a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state— I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public—people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.”

“The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.”

“China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.”

“Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.”