If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

Wizard's Eighth Rule Talga Vassternich. (Deserve Victory)

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

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

Bags, and Double Bags!" - Zedd