Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

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.

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

I really don't give what I wear very much thought.

With some of the songs, we brought the pitch down to alto.I'm older, so naturally my voice is lower now.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.