“I swear,” Mark whispered, “excess suspicion makes us bigger fools than excess trust does.” - Lois McMaster Bujold

“All right,” Miles pulled Suegar to his feet, “let’s go preach to the unconverted.”
Suegar laughed suddenly. “I had a top kick once who used to say, ‘Let’s go kick some ass,’ in just that tone of voice.”

A few other works, half of which turn out to be rubbish. Always a problem with written sources, which frequently tell you far more about the person who wrote them than the subject addressed.

One learns better than to hand one’s choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.