Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.