Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.

Generally speaking, all true children's stories make promises to their readers. Here you are, they say, unhandy and short, and there is a big world that one day will be yours. Listen to how it happened for Cinderella once upon a time, and Jack with his beanstalk, and Aladdin with his lamp.

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.