He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

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.

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

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

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

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.