"Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it."

"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun."

"It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal."

"Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other."

"It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise."

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

"Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them."

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

"Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it."

"Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness."

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

"The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men."