If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

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

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

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.

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

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.