To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

How deeply one felt when alone.

He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.

Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?

The world was all magic, and he had a special bottle of it in his right hand.

The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.

He began to develop an obstinate patience.

Like Garth Brooks said about it, you need to live where you could honestly choose, if you had to, on whether to give up one yesterday for one more tomorrow, you have to be able to say no to that.

I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.

I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.

Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.

I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.