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.
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.
The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.
Life is more fun if you play games.
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
Don't gobblefunk around with words.
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.
No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.
It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself