“That anyone could father a child, but a real man chooses to be a dad.”

“I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trick—the real choice—is to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up.“It is the best of both worlds, Jack. Being a child is to believe in magic everywhere…“…but even Peter Pan had to grow up one day.”

“The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. ”

“In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man!”

“The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child, but the parent.”

“The essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.”