Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

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

This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

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.