The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From this irreducible, bedrock ….

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey..

Only a fool walks into the future backwards..

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed..

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork….

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry shoul….

Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains ….

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery..

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 i….

It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind..

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent..

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, ….

If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choi….

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it..

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..

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning..

...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the….

To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The u….

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence..

...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how t….