To die will be an awfully big adventure.

I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.