Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

I am a man of my word.

I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.