“Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.”

“I cannot countenance destruction as a solution to the threat of destruction. In the long run such a victory would only bring about our own downfall. Jacen”

“This one hopez you know what you are doing. Not really. But it's uncertainty that makes life so interesting don't you think Saba Jacen”

“Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.”

“I'll bet Grand Admiral Pellaeon doesn't take this long to get himself together. I'll bet the Grand Admiral sleeps in his uniform. Leia Cal Omas”

“The Chiss have always stored sensitive data in this fashion. It is safe secure and permanent. We have lost too much data in ice storms to trust other more complicated forms of storage. Tris”

“It is arguable that when Humanists, "Shook off," as people say, "the trammels of religion," and discovered things of this world as objects of veneration in their own right... they began to lose the finer appreciation of even the world itself. Thus to the Christian centuries, the flesh was holy (or sacer at least in one sense or the other), and they veiled its awful majesty; to the Humanist centuries it was divine in its own right, and they exhibited it. Now it is the commonplace of the magazine cover. It has lost its numen. So too with the cult of knowledge for its own sake declining from the Revival of Learning to the Brains Trust.”