The Phantom Tollbooth

"Fear is only as real as you make it."

"You never really understand anything until you've seen it with your own eyes."

"The only reason to do anything is because it matters to you."

"What's the point of having friends if you can't be yourself around them?"

"Sometimes you have to go backward to go forward."

"It's not just how much you learn, but how you learn it."

"Ignorance is bliss only for the ignorant."

"The problem is that you think you have plenty of time, but you don't."

"If you really want to know something, ask the right questions."

"Sometimes the most important thing to do is nothing at all."

"Isn't it funny how you can miss something for a long time, and not realize until it's gone?"

"Everything you can think of is true in its own way."

"I suppose it doesn't matter who answers, as long as someone does."

"The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between."

"How strange to have so many people in one place and still feel so alone."

"You can't judge a book by its cover, nor can you always judge words by their definitions."

"Is it unimportant simply because no one has made much of a fuss about it?"

"When you're lost in the Doldrums, it's not just a place, it's a state of mind."

"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time."

"There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not because he was busy, but because he was bored."

"Words and numbers are tools for understanding the world, and both matter equally"

"The journey matters more than the destination, and there's joy in discovering what you didn't know you were looking for"