Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.