Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.

Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.

You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.