You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word....
Children's literature is considerably more functional than a good portion of adult literature. If I were cynical, I might say: Children's books are written to be read; adult books are written to be ta...
For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
I shall not lie! Eilonwy cried, not for this traitor and deserter. It is not for him, Taran said quietly, but for the sake of our quest. It isn't right, Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes. We d...
A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.
The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
Every living thing deserves our respect... be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful.
What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret
It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another... for in it are good and evil mixed.
Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had...
The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.
The journey is the treasure.
Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.
I'm trying to make myself invisible.That's an odd thing to attempt.
Alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging,
That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.
Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
Count the deed, not the thought.