I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first.

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.

You don't have to live up to anyone's expectations, just be the best you can be

If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way.