“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is You-er than You.”

“So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Dr. Seuss

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

“If you’d never been born, then you might be an Isn’t! An Isn’t has no fun at all. No, he didn’t!”

“Don’t give up. I believe in you all.”

“You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?” – Dr. Seuss

“I am what I am! That’s a great thing to be! If I say so my self, Happy Birthday to me!”

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” – Dr. Seuss

“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”

“It’s a troublesome world. All the people who are in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not.”

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

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

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

“Everything stinks till it’s finished.”

“You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”

“I’m sorry to say so but, sadly it’s true that bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you.”

“Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you.”

“I’m afraid sometimes you’ll play lonely games too, games you can’t win because you’ll play against you.”

“When you’re in a Slump, you’re not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.”

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

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”

“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.”

“‘The Lorax’ book was intended to be propaganda.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I am not a consecutive writer.”

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

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”

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

“You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.”

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

“It is better to know how to learn than to know.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.”

“If you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you will learn. Oh, the most wonderful stuff.”

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

“There’s no limit to how much you’ll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.”

“Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.”

“What it really said to me is how hard the people at our school work, … All of our employees who work here are working hard to do what’s right for our kids.”

“I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I Am.”

“Christmas doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more….” – Dr. Seuss

“We looked! Then we saw him. Step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him! The Cat in the Hat!”

“My wonderful weapon, the Jigger-Rock Snatchem, will fling ‘em right back just as quick as we catch ‘em.”

“So, on beyond Z! It’s high time you were shown. That you really don’t know. All there is to be known.”

“Just go. Go. Go! I don’t care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow.”

“And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.”

“And turtles, of course… all the turtles are FREE. As turtles and, maybe, ALL creatures should be.”