Don't worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from?

Sometimes, magic is like that. It lands on your head like a piano, a stupid, ancient, unfunny joke, and you spend the rest of your life picking sharps and flats out of your hair.

Magic has a logic, like algebra. Once you get to know it, it's easy. If this, then that. You write with a pencil, you don't make frog soup with it.

Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life!

I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.

all children are required to attend School, which is like a party to which everyone forgot to bring punch, or hats, or fiddles, and none of the games have good prizes.

Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.

Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.

I'm not afraid of you!' The wombat yelled. 'I saw you get stuck in the washing machine once. Round and round you went! Who's afraid of something that can't defeat a rinse cycle?

Reputations are just history in rumor form.

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.

I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.

When you win, don't swagger. When you lose, don't sulk.

First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.