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

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 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!

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

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.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

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