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

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

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