When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.

Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.

The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.

If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of proper distribution were given consideration, the world could feed itself well.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

If you don't dance, for heaven's sake, you cannot aspire. You do not lift up from this earth.

You can take my life, but you'll never break me. So bring me your worst... And I will definitely give you mine.

There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.