If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

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.

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

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.