They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

God is my everlasting Father.

The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?”

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

We can't control the world, but we can control our reactions to it.