Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.

Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said... Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things... Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax... Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings... Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot... Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

I think maybe they're all right when they say there are some things I won't know anything about until I'm older. But if [love] makes you like to eat all kinds of wurst I'm not sure I'm going to like this.

Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.