Roald Dahl

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

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

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

The more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury.

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.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

More knowledge may be gained of a man’s real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Wit and Humor – if any difference, it is in duration – lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage – the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe and it will be okay because I don’t quit.”- Shayne Mcclendon

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear.