But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.

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.

No matter what, make an effort to react positively to each event.

The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.

Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.

Life must be lived as play.

I've always been able to recount things and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.

Don't blame yourself for the declines, because one day you will credit yourself for the increases.

Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.

I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board.