My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls… - Lloyd Alexander

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?'
Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheerfully at him. 'I understand you're upset,' she shouted back, 'but that's no cause to be rude.' She galloped on.
For a time, Taran could not believe he had really seen her.

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.