Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

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!

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

A quarrel between friends when made up adds a new tie to friendship as ... the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.

But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

There is no there---there is only here.

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies.

There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.

Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.