People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

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?

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

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

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.