“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Unslumping yourself is not easily done.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

Here are some who like to run. They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, ‘Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!

It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn’t be there at all.

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I’m not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am – that’s a great thing to be!

Don’t let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone who doesn’t give a damn about you.

I know how to play my guard spot, he can worry about the low post.

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.

Being cool, having a ‘cool’ energy is just not attractive to me.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.