Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

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.

If you don't feel as close to God today as you did yesterday, who moved?

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.