I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.

I like well to be in the company of explorers

The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.