To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan

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.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

When people are talking about you, it means that you exist.

Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit.

. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.