Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.