When I Was Young I Longed To

Stunt Dwarf Or Destroy The Imagination Of A Child And You Have Taken Away Its Chances Of Success In Life. Imagination Transforms The Commonplace Into The Great And Creates The New Out Of The Old.

Imagination Has Given Us The Steam Engine, The Telephone, The Talking-machine, And The Automobile, For These Things Had To Be Dreamed Of Before They Became Realities. So I Believe That Dreams - Day Dreams, You Know, With Your Eyes Wide Open And Your Brain Machinery Whizzing - Are Likely To Lead To The Betterment Of The World. The Imaginative Child Will Become The Imaginative Man Or Woman Most Apt To Create, To Invent, And Therefore To Foster Civilization. A Prominent Educator Tells Me That Fairy Tales Are Of Untold Value In Developing Imagination In The Young. I Believe It.

Some Of My Youthful Readers Are Developing Wonderful Imaginations. This Pleases Me.

A Heart Is Not Judged By How Much You Love; But By How Much You Are Loved By Others.

I Think The World Is Like A Great Mirror, And Reflects Our Lives Just As We Ourselves Look Upon It.