Dr. Seuss

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in. ”

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again. ”

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

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

Adults are obsolete children. ”

Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might. ”