“Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.”

“You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.”

“Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.”

“Since no one has mentioned it,' said Eilonwy, 'it seems I'm not being asked to come along. Very well, I shan't insist.''You, too, have gained wisdom, Princess,' said Dallben. 'Your days on Mona were not ill-spent.''Of course,' Eilonwy went on, 'after you leave, the thought may strike me that it's a pleasent day for a short ride to go picking wildflowers which might be hard to find, especially since it's almost winter. Not that I'd be following you, you understand. But I might, by accident, lose my way, and mistakenly happen to catch up with you. By then, it would be too late for me to come home, through no fault of my own.”

“She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.”

“You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.”

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”