Roald Dahl

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.

I’ve also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It’s sure to be a phony.

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

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

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.

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

Whatever you have spend less.