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

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.

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.

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That’s all right. I like to have my heart broken.

[T[his isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213)

Frankly I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.

I got an email from my ex, telling me that she has AIDS. I didn't know how to comfort her, so I just wrote back I know.

The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.

Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason

She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up)