Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
To love beauty is to see light.
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
There are no ordinary moments.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
A child who reads will be an adult who thinks.
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.