If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

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.

I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true.