Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

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.

Gratitude is uplifting and helps you glow, stay beautiful, and feel eternally young as it churns up zeal and undying enthusiasm.

She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red.

Abraham Lincoln is the guy who could never be elected today, but whom we desperately wish we could elect.

You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call.

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.

When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.

If you are sure you are right, you need not worry what the world thinks.

The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.