But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.