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.
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.
Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.
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 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.
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends
Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.
On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.