If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be

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

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

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

You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.