All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters. - Lois McMaster Bujold

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

All in all, it was probably a good thing these youths had no political interests. They were just the sort of people who started revolutions but could not finish them, their idealism betrayed by their incompetence.