Just Because You Have A Choice, It

They Walked For A While, All Silent In Their Thoughts, Until They Reached The Car And Alec Drew A Fine Telescope From His Shirt And Handed It To Milo. "carry This With You On Your Journey," He Said Softly, "for There Is Much Worth Noticing That Often Escapes The Eye. Through It You Can See Everything From The Tender Moss In A Sidewalk Crack To The Glow Of The Farthest Star — And, Most Important Of All, You Can See Things As They Really Are, Not Just As They Seem To Be. It's My Gift To You.

Freedom Is Not A License For Chaos.

No One Paid Any Attention To How Things Looked, And As They Moved Faster And Faster Everything Grew Uglier And Dirtier, And As Everything Grew Uglier And Dirtier They Moved Faster And Faster, And At Last A Very Strange Thing Began To Happen. Because Nobody Cared, The City Slowly Began To Disappear. Day By Day The Buildings Grew Fainter And Fainter, And The Streets Faded Away, Until At Last It Was Entirely Invisible. There Was Nothing To See At All.

I Know One Thing For Certain; It Is Much Harder To Tell Whether You Are Lost Than Whether You Were Lost, For, On Many Occasions, Where You Are Going Is Exactly Where You Are. On The Other Hand, If You Often Find That Where You've Been Is Not At All Where You Should Have Gone, And, Since It's Much More Difficult To Find Your Way Back From Someplace You've Never Left, I Suggest You Go There Immediately And Then Decide.

There Are Good Books And There Are Bad Books, Period, That's The Distinction.