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

They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.

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!

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.

Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!

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

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