We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!" It was taken around the ring "Usal gives moisture to the dead!" He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.