To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

I only want power so I can get books.

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

But it is cute. It's such a boy thing to do.Drop dead.Aw, you say the most romantic things.

For an instant Harry imagined... Just for an instant, before his imagination blew a fuse and called an emergency shut down and told him never to imagine that again.

A society that fails to water the life-seeds of its members may be capable of instructing its citizens, but will be incapable of truly educating its children or wholly embracing its youth.

Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

I've been climbing for almost twenty years now. I'm more inspired and more motivated. I feel stronger than I ever have. I feel like that's worked up until now.

I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

Drinking and driving is safer than either drinking or driving - and no one has ever died drinking, driving and juggling.

Before our race, nationality, or religion, we are all human beings. Let's celebrate our differences and not fight over them.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.