What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!

I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.

You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr's death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr's blood.