Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.

And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.

To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.