“If you say that the China Cat might have lost its ear-tips in battle you are the kind of person who always makes difficulties, and you may be quite sure that the kind of splendid magics that happened to Tavy will never happen to you.”

“Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?”

“If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.”

“If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have.”

“You can't interrupt the process of making a key once you've started. It lets a kind of hesitation into the iron. That happens and the key will never sit well in its lock.”

“To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.”