I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then.

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.

Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?