J.M. Barrie quotes:

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes."[The Rectorial Address Delivered by James M. Barrie at St. Andrew's University May 3, 1922, to the Red Gowns of St. Andrews, Canada, 1922]

Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. Greeting, boys, he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence.He frowned.I am back, he said hotly, why do you not cheer?

Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily."I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not there, but the fallen leaves do it instead of you. There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

Every child is thus affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but will never afterwards be quite the same boy.

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

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in your babyhood, which it is a great pity you can't write down, for gradually you forget, and I have heard of children who declared that they had never once seen a fairy.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.