“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
“Being crazy isn't enough.”
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
“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!”
“You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!”
“So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.”
“How did it get so late so soon?”
“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
“If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.”
“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”
“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!”
“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!”
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
“They say I'm old-fashioned and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”
“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”
“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”
“Only you can control your future.”
“I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.”
“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
“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.”
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”
“When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.”
“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
“Think and wonder, wonder and think.”
“You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.”
“ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!”