267 Quotes by Shel Silverstein

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain’t enough!

If you’re behind the times, they won’t notice you. If you’re right in tune with them, you’re no better than they are, so they won’t care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them.

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That’s great. But for them, not for me.

When I am gone what will you do? Who will write and draw for you? Someone smarter – someone new? Someone better – maybe YOU!

Don’t be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.

How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ‘em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what’s right for you.

How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em.

Imagine – four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.