because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.