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.

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

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.

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.

Prayer may not change our outer circumstances but inwardly it can change everything

Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

To oblige people often costs little and helps much.

That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.

In a democracy the day when you pay your taxes, April 15, would be a day of celebration, because you're getting together to provide resources for the programs you decided on.

This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire.