Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

You will meet great beings when you come out of the well and see the world.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

Like any young person, I do what I want.

I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.

If Americans are to read something that is difficult, they will only do so supposing they will be admired for having done it.

I've got twins and a lovely wife and a great life and I don't want to miss that. So if I'm going to miss that it's got to be for something really good.

Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.