Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.

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.

Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.

What one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens.

How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.

If you're passing the buck, don't ask for change.

In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.

Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God.

I was a good student in school.

In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

You have to be unique.

There are a lot of things happening that show us that this, right now, is a time to love.