... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.