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

There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.