What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.