“There are two ways to ruin any chances of leading a happy life. The first is to chase a goal twenty-four hours a day, day after day, and gladly give up all the little laughs and joys that life has ...”

“Thats the problem with any simple truthit always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.”

“Nothing is illegal so long as you correct it before the SEC catches it.”

“You know whatgyms make the largest chunk of their profit from clients who pay their monthly dues on auto-pay but never bother to show up and use the gym. The DVD-rental companies make a good chunk ...”

“Never lose time in sending the scapegoat to the slaughterhouse.”

“There comes a time in everyones lifeand I do mean in everyones lifewhen you ask yourself what it is that youve been doing with your life. Sometimes you even realize that whatever youve been doing a...”

“You know what happens at any magic show? When the magician says ‘look here, look here,’ the audience looks only there and nowhere else. And that’s exactly what happened at the earnings conference t...”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”

“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”

“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. ...”

“Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.”