The wisdom of Dr. Seuss

"Stop turning minnows into whales."

— "And to Think That I Saw It All on Mulberry Street"

"He meant what he said,

And he said what he meant —

And they sent him home happy

One hundred percent!"

— "Horton Hatches the Egg"

"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store.

Maybe Christmas . . . perhaps . . . means a little bit more."

— "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

"Unless someone like you

Cares a whole awful lot,

Nothing's going to get better.

It's not."

— "The Lorax"

"Even kings can't rule the sky"

— "Bartholomew and the Oobleck"

"If you want to catch beasts you don't see everyday

You have to go places quite out-of-the-way."

— "If I Ran the Zoo"

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

— "Horton Hears a Who"

"Sneetches are Sneetches,

And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches."

— "The Sneetches"

"A yawn is quite catching, you see, like a laugh,

It takes one yawn to start other yawns off."

— Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book"