You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets: they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home.

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?