Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice – if not whether, then how, they may endure.
Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
A good friend of my son’s is a son to me.
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.
Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won’t shoot your foot off.
It’s an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.
A hundred objective measurements didn’t sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
This wasn’t prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
An honor is not diminished for being shared.
The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
Experience suggests it doesn’t matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
If you want to catch something, running after it isn’t always the best way.
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.
The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.