If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

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

The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

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