If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.

Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.

Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?""By leaping into the Void? Not really.

Heartache, to her, coursed through everything--which was as it should be, since people needed it to make them kind.pg. 4

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me.

Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.

Surround yourself with people of like mind and different talents and temperaments with the purpose of serving the goals of every member of the group. Associate with these people on a regular basis.

A true friend is a friend when in difficulty

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.