I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

If you are good life is good.

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

There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

You seemed so far away, " Miss Honey whispered, awestruck."Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings, " Matilda said. "It was wonderful.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't.

Inner peace comes from knowing the ultimate purpose of your life.

One of life’s mysteries is why two children growing up in the same home sometimes take radically different paths—one following Christ, the other rebellious and scornful. Yet it happens.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole.

Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.

The world and man are identical. This is why racism is the most stupid thing in the world.

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.