• The universe runs through the complex interweaving of energy, matter, and enlightened self interest

• The avalanche has started. It’s too late for the pebbles to vote.

• You are not ready for immortality

• Ivanova is God, Ivanova is always right

• The future isn’t what it used to be.

• Beware of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger

• Understanding is a three edged sword

. Watch out for Shadows, they move when you aren’t looking at them.

• We are already in far greater jeopardy than you can possibly imagine

• Know where your orders come from.

• Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age and reconsidered in death

• There is always choice. We say there is no choice only to comfort ourselves with a decision we have already made

• Intelligence has nothing to do with politics

• Bad guys make a very agreeable thump! when they hit the floor

• … but do not thump the book of G’Quon. It’s disrespectful.

• Claim victory in your heart, and the universe will follow.

• The universe is already mad. Everything else would be redundant.

• Never get involved in your own life. It’s too much trouble

• A lack of information can kill you

• Always bet on stupidity

• Sometimes, peace is just another word for surrender

• … secrets have a way of getting out

• there’s always a BOOM tomorrow

• Nobody listens to Zathras

• Some favours com with too high a price

• Take a great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

• We are star stuff. We are the universe, trying to figure itself out.

• Doing the right thing for the wrong reason will only get you into trouble

• No race can be truly intelligent without laughter

• As long as you are alive, everything else is negotiable

• Faith manages

• Believe what you will until experience teaches you otherwise

• All important books should have an index

• When you’re about to do something very unwise, it is tradition to ask your friends if they are ready.

• Always plant a lie inside a truth makes it easier to swallow

• What is, is. Opinion doesn’t matter.

• The future is always born in pain

• All life can be broken down in moments of transition and moments of revelation.

• Temporary, isn’t it a beautiful word?

Oh the things you find on your old hard drive years later...