A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.