“Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.”

— J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (1928), Act 1

About J. M. Barrie

1860 – 1937

Scottish playwright and novelist, creator of "Peter Pan".

“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”

“God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.”

“Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.”

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”

“All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature.”

“Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization.”

“One has to have the imagination to think of something that has never been seen before, never been heard of before.”

“All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity.”