As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all!

All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.

The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

My path was predetermined by the Creator.

He avoided small talk at the best of times and this, unquestionably, was a million horrific miles from the best of times.

Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.

The greatest of all faults is to imagine you have none".

I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.

Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.

"Boys," Annabeth interrupted, "I'm sure you both would've been wonderful at killing each other. But right now you need some rest."

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

Faith comes not through pondering but through action.

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.