Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

You will find solution, if you have a passionate, strong desire to breakthrough

Courage sometimes skips a whole generation

Layout your options, create a beautiful masterpiece of yours.

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again.

The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.