Change is possible.''Change is inevitable.

And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.

Women shouldn't be in combat, " said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion.

It was hell to be so tired, and still care.

But when he’s cut, I bleed.

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

In work, do what you enjoy.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

You gotta have faith. Even at the bottom of the blackest hole, there will always be light shining through. It just takes faith to see it.

Nashville, man. That's the place to be.