If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi. -Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn

The spirit of the law is the least of the things we're prepared to violate.

The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.

Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that.

Right now I've got just two rules to live by. Rule one: don't taunt elephants. Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants. -Sergeant Schlock

As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me. -Captain Tagon

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing.

The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place.

Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

What you do as president has consequences.