I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat. ‘I don’t much care where—’ said Alice. ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.

Happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this.