Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

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.

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.

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

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.

Take a step towards actualizing the very thing you are persuaded for and do not allow injustice to silence your voice.

Not every hard worker can be a leader

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

The warrior is always trying to improve.

Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.