No man can change the nature of another.
Most people aren’t the final authority, but they don’t want to let on someone else is making the decisions.
Most dangerous thing in the world: government employees who don’t hate their jobs enough to take a bribe.
Men seldom realize when things are rigged in their favor. It would require them to have a realistic and limited view of their skills. To be in touch with humility.
Men need targets. Keep things neat. Sometimes men become targets.
Love only makes the weak blind.
Lord doesn’t put knowledge before us so that we can remain ignorant.
Look before you leap. So long as in the end, you leap.
Kings. They don’t blow around, man. They stand there and they take. First the village, then the city. Mass the troops for the keep. And once the keep…
It’s much better to be the lawyer and go home when the hour’s up, get some sleep. If you’re the client, you’re up all night.
It’s easy to forget one’s ideals when there’s a pile of money or political spoils on the table, because we each have things we want, and there never seems to be enough to pay for them.
If you work with me, I need your blood, because that is what I give.[to Rian]
