James Matthew Barrie

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

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

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

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

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

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
- All from James Matthew Barrie, 1860 - 1937

About: The man who wrote Peter Pan, Sir James Matthew Barrie, was born at Kirriemuir, Scotland on 9 May in 1860. After graduating from the University of Edinburg in 1882 he wrote for the Nottingham Journal for three years before he moved to London. There he thrived in an intense literary circle, his friends included H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, and P. G. Wodehouse, and wrote extensively for the stage.