"Step with care and great tact And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act Just never forget to be dexterous and deft And never mix up your right foot with your left."

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."

"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."

"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent."

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries."

"Whata€?s the use of happiness? It cana€?t buy you money."

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

"In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children."

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

"I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system."