My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

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.

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.

The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.

We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?

I think absurdist humor is funny.

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week.