Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.

The whole world is covered with buttons, and not one of them is mine!

All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.

Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad)

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.

Wishes on their way to coming true will not be rushed.

Winter is beautiful, but bed is better.

Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.

Advice from friends is like the weather. Some of it is good; some of it is bad.

Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.The Nature of Emotions (2001)

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

But fundamentally, I don't think of it as an alien-invasion movie; everybody's here, kind of, right? So, I think it's probably more of an action-adventure picture, if I actually had to qualify it.

I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.