Lloyd Alexander Quotes
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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Speak up, my boy. If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.
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Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we believe we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.
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The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.
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It is not the trappings that make the prince, nor, indeed, the sword that makes the warrior.
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The task counts more than the one who does it.
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'What civilization would be complete without a cat?' the Professor went on. 'What greater blessing to the home than the kindly yet watchful eye of this tiger of the fireside?'
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Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.
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'It is easy to judge evil unmixed,' replied Gwydion. 'But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.'
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If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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'Oh yes,' said the Emperor. 'That’s what you have to do when you approach the Celestial Presence-that’s me.''Well, I’m afraid that no cat in the world ever bowed to an emperor,' said Jason. 'They just won’t do it, Ichigo, and you’re wasting your time if you try to force them. A cat does what he wants, when he wants, emperor or not.'
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'Why?' Dallben interrupted. 'In some cases,' he said, 'we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.'
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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'A pig is a pig,' said the stranger, 'and a pig-boy is a pig-boy.'
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'I have marched in many a battle host,' Adaon answered quietly, 'but I have also planted seeds and reaped the harvest with my own hands. And I have learned there is greater honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.'
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We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.
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Laws assure animals of protection – formally, officially, set down in black and white. But in the long run, the best protection is the human heart.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.
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We’re neither good nor evil. We’re simply interested in things as they are.
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Fantasy, by its power to move us so deeply, to dramatize, even melo-dramatize, morality, can be one of the most effective means of establishing a capacity for adult values.
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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.