We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.