“People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.”
“I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!”
“You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.”
“Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.”
“...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.”
“But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.”