Words worth keeping
25 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
Happiness [is] only real when shared
One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.