What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

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