Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

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?

But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.