You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.

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!

Make sure you understand when best you are effective and then schedule your most important tasks within that time of the day.

I do not need to grow up or train in the gym in order to beat the devil, when I know that my God can beat him for me.

Designing for children carries a social responsibility beyond bright colors and scaled-down furnishings that only perceptive and informed grown-ups can understand.

It's the imperfections that make everything perfect.

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry".

We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.

But think of the violence, it could happen to your kids.