Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Life is more fun if you play games.
When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants – and DESERVES – is a parent who is SPARKY!
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.
I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.
There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven’t met...
My dear young fellow,? the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, ’there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
Bunkum and tummyrot! You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he’d said ‘What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?’ He wouldn’t even have started.
You ignorant little slug!” the Trunchbull bellowed. “You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!
Now that I am alone, I don’t have to hide it; I don’t have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there’s twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don’t have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw...
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Hooray!” said the Chief of the Army. “Let’s blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!