Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.

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.

Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd.

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.

The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.