There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.

He who hesitates is lost

and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

Accidents happen all the time.