If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.

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!

I had to take a step of faith and look beyond my circumstances. I had to make a conscious choice to trust Him.

The Russian soul is a dark place.

Alone at home, Washing dishes while thinking about her thatHow beautiful it would’ve been if she was here.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you.

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.