Only those you trust can betray you.

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.

You can not give up because life is a riddle

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth

I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.

You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy.

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.