He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

What can fingerprints mean when they’re not necessarily yours?

Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?

Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?

How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.