Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.

Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.

happy people have got something to give to the world.