I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.

Professional men run the business started by the courageous men.

Only this actual moment is life.

Men in general are but great great children.

The body whips the soul. In its great desire it demands the elixir In the roar of spring, transmutations.

Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.

It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

I enjoy eating and have no issues with eating. I am not going to be one of those girls who have to watch her weight.

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.