Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.