That path leads ever down into stagnation.

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

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.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.