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.

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.

A good book written for children can be read by adults