The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

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.

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

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!

And in that moment she realized none of it was real, and so she set herself free.

like a soulmate he's your penguin

I wasn't sure what was happening between us, but I didn't want it to happen without me.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

Today life opened inside me like an egg.

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.