I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

Think big.Dream great dreams.Take action to realize your dreams.

The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

Loving someone meant letting them be who they were, not caging them

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.

Don't ask me how I am,' I blurt. 'Please.' I want to keep feeling good. Just because the lights are on doesn't mean I have to look.