I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly much. Of intentions many good ones; but many more left undone. On this alas, I saw myself a man like any other. But this too I saw . . . Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same.You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.

Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands the use of a slide rule but prefers doing calculations in her head. She does not hesitate to risk life and limb- mine as well as her own. No doubt she has other qualities as yet undiscovered. I hope not.

For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.

And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.