Roald Dahl

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

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

When the desire ain’t on me I don’t need help. When it is on me I don’t want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn’t do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody’s.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.