“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”

“If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”

“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”

“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

“She may not be like everyone else, but neither am I.”

“Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.”

“She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.”

“Mercy is for the weak let me show you how much of an Unseelie I still am.”

“A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.”

“Could we wear spandex and blow things up?”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”