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

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
We are all failures - at least the best of us are.
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
Life is a long lesson in humility.

Humility, Life
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Work
I am not young enough to know everything.

Age, Youth