You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.