Roald Dahl

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. He lived happily ever after.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage.

Plenty of times I wanted to haul off when somebody insulted me for the color of my skin, but I had to hold to myself. I knew I was kind of an experiment. The whole thing was bigger than me.

Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

My life is a struggle.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.