It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said. Yeah," Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.

The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.