In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

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.

I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

What you cannot control, you must accept.