People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.

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.

Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?

If you don't receive enough, have a look if you give enough.

When you don't know what to do, go back to the places, the people and the promises where you know you last heard God.

Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.

It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?