James M. Barrie (1860-1937)

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.

Quotes

To die will be an awfully big adventure.
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.
If you have love you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it it doesn't matter much what else you do have.
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Ambition
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Youth
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passions, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
The most useless are those who never change through the years.
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Praise
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.