Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

The useless men are those who never change with the years.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.