He was top-heavy with conceit.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

Many grim tales stem from your green lands, and still deeds both noble and evil shall yet unfold there.

Peace is not only the absence of war, but also a way of seeing the world, and the choices we make are how we express and manifest that vision of the world.

Ideas are bulletproof

Let me talk to my mother. She is listening from above.

All men desire by nature to know.

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

They’re all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody’s going.

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.

The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.