You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

...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.

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

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

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of

You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

There are no wrong roads to anywhere.