Roald Dahl

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

If you are good, life is good.

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.

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.

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

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

There is nothing assured to mortals.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.