You must never feel badly about making mistakes … as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do...

And, most important of all,” added the Mathemagician, “here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you.”He placed in Milo’s breast pocket a small gleaming pencil...

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I’ve never heard of.

I never knew words could be so confusing,” Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog’s ear.”Only when you use a lot to say a little,” answered Tock.Milo thought this was...

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.