“Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them”

“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

“Achievement is made of sweat and tears, so every single day you need to put in the work, and work as hard as you can!”

“you can’t fool all the people all the time,” but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.”

“Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.”

“Don't try to fool me and act like you can do or say anything 'because we are a democracy...Do you misunderstand something? Today, I am the one makes the rules. Previous governments couldn't do that. But today, I made the rules [sic], and all of you have to follow them.”

“The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.”

“The most important rule there is, the Wizard's Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.”

“When you represent in your work shadows which you can only discern with difficulty, and of which you cannot distinguish the edges so that you apprehend them confusedly, you must not make them sharp or definite lest your work should have a wooden effect.”