The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.

You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.

The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third.

...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.