I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

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.

The truth is helpless when up against perception

Dreams are a beautiful bride that holds our hands to enter a world more gloriousthan this one.

She feels lonely all the time, she wants to be accepted, by anyone, on any terms, but she feels apart. As if nobody who really got to know her would trust her.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

All my life is in Spain. I will stay.

I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.

For the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone.