We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.