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.

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

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

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.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

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