“Adults are only obsolete children.”

“Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.”

“Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.”

“You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!”

“Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.”

“Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.”

“But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.”

“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm”