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

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.

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!

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I removed much of the clothes talk, but quite a bit remained.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Everything ends. But there are always new beginnings.

The only real experience that counts, is your own.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.