You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

It is good to focus, but never forget to look around. If you focus on the wrong target, you may miss seeing all of the beauty around you.

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

A car is only trouble at a certain point.

The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job. I don't welcome any challenge. I'd rather have nine guys named Robinson.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

I like Manchester, Birmingham. I really find this place very nice. Loved Australia. I thought that was awesome.

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

Hark," he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?