"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

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

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

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

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!"
— Dr. Seuss

"Being crazy isn't enough."
— Dr. Seuss

"When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle."
— Dr. Seuss (Fox in Socks)

"I said what I meant, and I meant what I said. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!"
— Dr. Seuss (Horton Hears a Who!)

"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!"
— Dr. Seuss

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

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."
— Dr. Seuss

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

"How did it get so late so soon?"
— Dr. Seuss

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

"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

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

"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."
— Dr. Seuss

"Today is gone. Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.
Every day,
from here to there,
Funny things are everywhere."
— Dr. Seuss

"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."
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)

"If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good."
— Dr. Seuss

"Only you can control your future."
— Dr. Seuss

"In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!"
— Dr. Seuss

"All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!"
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go! and The Lorax)

"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. "
— Dr. Seuss

"There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go."
— Dr. Seuss

"poor empty pants
with nobody inside them."
— Dr. Seuss

"I speak for the trees! Let them grow! Let them grow!"
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

"If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't!
An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't."
— Dr. Seuss

"Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent."
— Dr. Seuss

"Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how."
— Dr. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat)

"“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. 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. You are the guy who'll decide where to go. All alone!
Whether you like it or not,
alone is something you'll
be quite a lot. I'm afraid sometimes
you'll play lonely games too,
games you can't win
because you'll play against you. You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.""
— Dr. Seuss

"He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
— Dr. Seuss

"I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights."
— Dr. Seuss (Yertle the Turtle and Gertrude McFuzz)

"Christmas doesn't come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more...."
— Dr. Seuss (How the Grinch Stole Christmas!)

"Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you"
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)

"Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France
Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance
To escape from the perilous pants eating plants
But your pants are safe, you’re a fortunate guy
You ought to be shouting how lucky am I"
— Dr. Seuss

"This mess is too big and too deep and to tall. We can't clean it up! We can't clean it up at all!"
— Dr. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat)

"You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left."
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)

"The storm starts, when the drops start dropping
When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping."
— Dr. Seuss

"Fun can be fun, if you know how."
— Dr. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat)

"And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be."
— Dr. Seuss

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

"Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all."
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)

""...ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacaderm!'""
— Dr. Seuss (Horton Hears a Who!)