Dr. Seuss

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

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

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Fun is good.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

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

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!