Jack Mcdevitt

Her experience had taught her that people who insisted on having others recognize their outstanding qualities usually didn’t have any.

Embrace your life, find what it is that you love, and pursue it with all your soul. For if you do not, when you come to die, you will find that you have not lived.

The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn’t true, but it sounded good.

Henry had been around long enough to know better than to disagree. But he forgot to implement.

Politicians always seemed to be willing to sacrifice the general welfare to win votes.

“Alyx,” she said, “you're going to be a legend.”

“I already am, Captain,” she said.

We’re talking about something we all want very much to find. And that automatically makes Ed’s conclusions suspect.

Ah, Lord, if I doubt You, it is perhaps because You hide Yourself so well.

Gambini was addicted to asking the sort of ultimate questions about which one could speculate endlessly with no fear of ever arriving at a solution.