Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.

That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

The chicken thing let out a whispering cackle.

Where the human need for order meetsthe human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

Every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth.

Either you're a person wondering if you have a soul, or you're a soul who knows that being a person isn't real.

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

Pilates is my favorite meditative way to get in shape. I don't like the gym and I don't like running, so I just lay on my Pilates reformer. It's great.

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

Don't stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.