The best Quotes from The Circus Series

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

"Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!" said Jimmy longingly. "How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!"

The moon was coming slowly up over the hill in front of them. The countryside was bathed in light, pale and cold and silvery. Everything could be seen quite plainly, and Lotta and Jimmy thought it was just like daytime with the colours missing.

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are!

I don't know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them - I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them - the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus of our growth.

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.