There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech.

I am beginning to worry that my speech is becoming a rather incomprehensible mixture of a Victorian woman, an Australian Beach Bum and a Laddish city boy

I don’t think any relationship responds well to pressure.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

People who hate often do so with great conviction. What we need are more people who love with conviction.

I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.