Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold (b. 1949)

• Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

• A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

• An honor is not diminished for being shared.

• Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

• If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

• War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.