Lois McMaster Bujold

“It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.”

“Worry is a prayer for what you don't want.”

“The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.”

“When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.”

“Aim high. It's easier to forgive yourself for falling short than for not trying at all.”

“Death is the ultimate promotion.”

“The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.”

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

“Any idiot can be a genius in a crisis, it's the everyday living that kills you.”

“There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity.”

“Grief is the price of love.”

“If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.”

“You can't go back and you can't stand still. If you go forward, it may be painful. But if you stand still, it will kill you.”

“It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end.”

“The truly unforgivable sin is pride.”

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”

“Forward is the only direction that matters in the end.”

“A man does not run among thorns for pleasure.”