Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, 'Why, of course, I did, child,' and if you ask her whether he …

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing known for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

Alas! the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

I looked and looked but I didn't see God.

'I fear God and if He is there for me, who else can be against me.' (10 June 2005, Explaining his refusal to have police protection or bodyguards, despite thre…