Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

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.

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

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

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

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.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

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

Fun is good.

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?

Adults are obsolete children.

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.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Dr. Seuss Imagination, Brain Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

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.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

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

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

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.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!

Only you can control your future.

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!

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.

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

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.

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Being crazy isn't enough.

I am not a consecutive writer.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

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.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. 

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

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 was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

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

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. 

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

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.