You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

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

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

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

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?

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.