Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

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.

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

Your anger and resentment can destroy peace but love can fill the world with peace and happiness.

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

I'm more and more in control of my own vibration.

Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.

Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.

God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.