“In some ways, you know, people that don’t exist, are much nicer than people that do.”

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you’ll have to run much faster.

If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

‎You’re not the same as you were before,” he said. You were much more – muchier, you’ve lost your muchness.

Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

He was part of my dream, of course – but then I was part of his dream, too.

Life, what is it but a dream?

If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

When you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.

We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions.

You have to be odd to be number one.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.