The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.

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.

Marriage is not a reform school . . .Instead of you reforming [your spouse], [he or she] will instead influence you.

I learned about lifefrom life itself, love I learned in a single kissand could teach no one anythingexcept that I have livedwith something in common among men.

If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There's steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of.

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair.

In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures