Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

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.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?