Dr. Seuss Quotes

You make ’em, I amuse ’em.

Adults are obsolete children.

Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

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 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.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

I was saving the name of ‘Geisel’ for the Great American Novel.

If you don’t like me, remember it’s mind over matter.
I don’t mind, and you don’t matter.

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.

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.

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.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

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 Lorax’ book was intended to be propaganda.