Dr. Seuss
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.Collection: Funny
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.Collection: Great
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.Collection: Imagination
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!Collection: Birthday
Only you can control your future.Collection: Future
Adults are obsolete children.Collection: Age
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.Collection: Good
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.Collection: Wisdom
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?Collection: Time
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.Collection: Christmas
A person's a person, no matter how small.Collection: Respect
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.Collection: Alone
Fun is good.Collection: Good
You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.Collection: Health
I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Life
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.Collection: Smile
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.Collection: Politics
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!Collection: Imagination
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.
Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'
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.
You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.
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.
I am not a consecutive writer.
I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.Collection: Life
You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!Collection: Inspirational
You have to be odd to be number one.Collection: Inspirational
When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.Collection: Strength
Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.Collection: Love
Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.Collection: Romantic Love
If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.Collection: Life Is Too Short
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?Collection: Inspirational
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.Collection: Rose
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.Collection: Inspirational
You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.Collection: Education
It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.Collection: Inspirational
And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!Collection: Inspirational