The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

I never thought that I was very intelligent

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.