“Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.”

If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

‎You’re not the same as you were before,” he said. You were much more – muchier, you’ve lost your muchness.

Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

He was part of my dream, of course – but then I was part of his dream, too.

Life, what is it but a dream?

If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

My view of life is, that it’s next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.

And here I am, dying in my bed, like cattle die. May the eyes of cowards never sleep.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin’, the heart inside me would’ve died.

Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.

If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.

Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.