You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.

I’m warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.' 'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please, brave man, don’t slay me with your magic sword!

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

There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.