The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less

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.

What's in a name?  The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife - but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren't just housewives, they were community leaders.

I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.

Every business will face tough times.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.