Very well. You may help me exterminate the Society of Wizards.

I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!

Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

Keep on dreaming. Keep on believing. It is free. And it is a choice.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Start seeing yourself as God sees you, see yourself through God’s eyes

Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.