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

Freedom is not a license for chaos.

Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a--" "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying.

...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

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.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

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