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

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.

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.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

Sarah, honey, I hardly think kidnappers are going to take the time to buy a memento of their stay. I could be wrong, but it seems rather unlikely.

The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs

When you know better, you do better!

Nothing ever stays the same. Just because things aren't good now doesn't mean they will be that way forever....Never quit.

You can never hope to become a skilled conversationalist until you learn how to put your foot tactfully through the television set.

Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.

I'm not about being sexy. I'm about the music.

You cannot have a testimony without a test. Will you pass the test or have the monies?

Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.

Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.