“For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.”

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

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.

It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.

You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

Luck is very important. Of course you can’t wait for luck, because it won’t come. While you start a journey, luck may eventually come to you.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

If you love something, set it free. And if it really loves you, it will find a way to come back.

I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.

I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.