The path of power is a path of turns within turns. — Raymond E. Feist

"I think I know what power can do, and what sort of men seek it."

"I am!—he cries, and a million philosophies cry out in wonder."

"What they teach you is useful, but never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution."

"We of the Assembly support the Empire because on this world it is the single most powerful force for order—not because it is noble, or fair, or beautiful, or just. But because of it the majority of humanity can live and work without war in their homelands, can live without famine, plagues, and the other disasters of older times. And with this order around us, we of the Assembly can work unhindered."

"I see myself as a servant of the gods, though that may be only my vanity speaking."

"He was always complaining of there being so much to learn and so little time to learn it. And that from a man who had lived years beyond numbering."