This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

Maximize the time you have through hard work, concentration and research

I was tired of being a haunted house' he said. 'Thank you for coming home.

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.

He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

How many pages are there in my life?? I’ve read only a prologue.. But personally it’s exciting already.