“It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.”

“Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.”

“Life is more fun if you play games.”

“When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY!”

“There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood”

“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

“A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY”