You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it.

It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and that it was simply good manners to let them know, from time to time, how valued they were.

Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.

She said, "As long as we're with each other--" "We know we're in exactly the right place," he finished.

Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It's Brazilian Portuguese. It means to find a way to get something done, no matter what the obstacles.

No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.

Nobody ever gets enough appreciation when they're behaving themselves, but there's no end to hearing about it when they're not.