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

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.