Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

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.

God is never far from His people, even when they are far from Him.

You are nothing but a reflection of your imagination. Be yourself to create a better self.

He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs.

The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.

It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.

Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.