How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.

The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

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.

All true wealth is biological.