It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

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.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Tell him everything

All we have in love are two unprotected hearts in an open field. And that’s why our hearts bleed so much when we get hurt.

You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

It's all about having fun and smiling and shaking hands.

Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens.