Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trick—the real choice—is to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up. “It is the best of both worlds, Jack. Being a child is to believe in magic everywhere… “…but even Peter Pan had to grow up one day.

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?

Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?

Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.

Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.