Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.

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.

I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

Chess is not just a game. It is a way of life.

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone.

Noble blood is an accident of fortune noble actions characterize the great.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

The Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to ‘beware of self-righteousness’ and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we feel ‘to take them upon our shoulders.

I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do.

It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.