I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul.